IGA owner Kosta Tzortzis has offered Aussies a discount for cash to get around costly surcharges. (Source: Supplied)A full-scale crackdown on card surcharges is underway, and they could be banned by 2026. Surcharges cost Australians up to $1 billion a year, but who is to blame and would a ban…

British music legend Sir Cliff Richard has announced he will be playing four shows on a 2025 tour of New Zealand.The tour will begin with two shows in Auckland at Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre on November 14 and 15.It will then move to Wellington’s Michael Fowler Centre on November 17,…

NAB CEO Andrew Irvine said he plans to keep the major bank’s branches open and is working to ensure cash continues flowing. (Source: NAB/AAP)NAB’s new boss said he’s committed to keeping the major bank’s branches open and ensuring cash continues to flow through Australia. More people are banking and transacting…

Thousands of Boeing staff will get layoff notices within weeks, a union and industry sources said, as a senior US official flew to Seattle to try to ease a crippling strike and a major airline issued a warning over the planemaker’s deepening turmoil. Acting US Labor Secretary Julie Su’s first…

A street cleaner is still seeing large canisters of nitrous oxide being sold to young people from shops in the Māngere town centre, despite the Government’s recent crackdown on the sale of the gas for recreational use.Known as ‘NOS’ or ‘nangs’, the canisters can be used to make whipped cream,…

Tax cuts don’t appear to be fuelling shopping sprees, with transaction data suggesting extra take-home pay is going towards staples and paying down debt.Footy finals were the only bright spot in an otherwise glum September for spending, with recreation recording the only rise in a discretionary category over the month.Commonwealth…

A Christchurch boy missing from his home in St Albans since yesterday afternoon has been found safe and well.He had last seen in the area of a skate park in Sydenham on Sunday.The child was found “safe and well” this evening, police said in an update this evening.”Thanks to everyone…

Westpac customers first started reported issues at around 2pm AEST and services have now been restored. (Source: Getty)Westpac has been hit by its second outage in two days, leaving thousands of customers unable to access their internet banking once again. The outage impacted Westpac, along with its subsidiary banks St…

The deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found that a St John 111 call-taker breached protocol when responding to reports of a man suffering a heart attack, who later died en route to the hospital.In a decision released on Monday, Commissioner Deborah James concluded that the man’s rights had been…

Opinion: The Government’s first year in power has been marked with speed wobbles, an ‘executive paradise’ and a Treaty principles pantomime, writes Richard Shaw for The Conversation. Nearly a year on from its formation, it’s clear a three-party coalition is not quite the same as the two-party versions New Zealand…