Wool advocate Craig Smith says the global wool industry needs to wake up and ask if it is there for quality or simply to hit a price point. Mr Smith, general manager of Devold New Zealand, said companies blending poorer styles and shorter wools to hit a price point were…

Rich-lister Anna Mowbray and her husband, former All Black Ali Williams, are spearheading the proposal for a new stadium at Auckland’s Western Springs.Auckland Council held two confidential workshops last week to cover options for a future stadium at Western Springs.The first meeting covered a proposal put forward by Mowbray and…

More than half of New Zealand workers — 54% — regret their choice of career and would choose differently if they had their time over, according to a survey by employment website Seek.The survey of more than 1000 workers found not earning enough was the top reason for regret, followed…

With her new book out today, journalist Ali Mau talks about letting go of dark secrets, the incredibleness of her girlfriend and how she used to think she was fat.In her incendiary memoir Ali Mau shatters forever the glossy image of TV blonde perfection she struck back in the early…

Nintendo is set to provide a closer look at its highly anticipated Switch 2 gaming console tomorrow.The 60-minute Nintendo Direct presentation will be live-streamed at 9am EDT (2am NZ time). A release date and price have yet to be announced, but Nintendo said earlier this year the console will hit…

A legal bid to stop a sewerage pipe being installed in a wāhi tapu area near Rotorua has failed in the Environment Court.Works on the Tarawera Sewerage Scheme paused about a month ago following applications to the Environment Court by groups protesting the works at Lake Rotokākahi.Construction had restarted, with…

Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favourite Iceman in Top Gun, donned a voluminous cape as Batman in Batman Forever and portrayed Jim Morrison in The Doors, has died. He was 65.Kilmer died today in Los Angeles, surrounded by family and friends, his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, said…

The clock is ticking for Sudhir Wadhwa. He owns Idiya, Aotearoa’s largest parallel importer of IKEA products, and he has about 2000 bits of flat-packed Scandinavian goods worth $5 million at his facility in Pōkeno.”We probably won’t be able to sell it once IKEA is here, so we’ll be putting…

Tony Bennett’s two daughters have filed a new lawsuit against their brother, alleging he illegally enriched himself at their expense against their father’s wishes both before and after the legendary singer’s death in 2023.Antonia and Johanna Bennett filed the lawsuit Monday in New York against D’Andrea “Danny” Bennett, who was…

By Gyles Beckford of RNZ Westpac’s chief economist has thrown a cat among the forecasting pigeons by saying the Reserve Bank (RBNZ) should not cut the benchmark official cash rate (OCR) at next week’s monetary review. Kelly Eckhold said he expected the RBNZ will go ahead with a smaller sized…