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New figures have revealed the assets of our ten biggest iwi stands at $8.2 billion.

A recent report from consultancy firm TDB Advisory shows the assets only rose by $100m in the last three years, a slightly better return than 2023 – as the economic turmoil over the last five years continues to have an impact on their investments.

Covering everything from property, to farming, to managed funds and offshore opportunities, many ...

Since 1930, across 22 editions of the Fifa Mens World Cup, only two New Zealand teams have featured on the biggest football stage, in 1982 and 2010.

Now there will be three.

The All Whites have qualified for the 2026 Fifa World Cup – after a three nil win over New Caledonia in front of a home crowd at Eden Park.

After a successful job co-hosting the womens tournament in 2023, and a strong run from new team Auckland FC in the ...

At 11:59pm on March 25th 2020, New Zealand entered its first level four Covid –19 lockdown. 

To many, that moment may feel like it happened just yesterday, while others are glad its firmly in the past.

Whatever your feelings are about New Zealand’s response to the Covid pandemic, that first lockdown was a life altering event for many of us.

Five years on, did it change us for the better, or did it kickstart somethi...

School rugby has been under the microscope for several years now after controversies over poaching between schools and live broadcast of games.

Those tensions have flared up again, with secondary schools pushing back against NZ Rugby’s plans for an Under-18 team to take on Australia.

It’s not the only sporting code to face push back though. This week, our young rowers take to the waters for the Maadi Cup regatta, and fo...

There have been a number of headlines trending throughout 2025 so far. Tariffs, trade wars, geopolitical tensions... and romance scams.

Fake online relationships – better known as catfishes – have existed as long as social media has been around.

But the increasing prevalence of AI is making it trickier to tell fact from fiction.

One woman in France was conned out of 800,000 Euros after believing she was in a relationshi...

This week is seeing New Zealand’s highest-ranking politicians walking a tricky diplomatic tightrope.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has been courting his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to kickstart trade deal discussions – but their meeting took a twist when Modi raised concerns about ‘anti-Indian activity’ in New Zealand.

Around the same time, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters ha...

Trump's tariff wars are officially on.

Donald Trump’s first two targets are Mexico and Canada, imposing 25% tariffs on their products – and 20% on Chinese imports.

These three countries accounted for more than 40% of imports into the US last year.

He’s also introduced a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminium products worldwide.

On his social media site, Truth Social, Trump said if the EU doesn’t remove a prop...

Bowel cancer is the second highest cause of cancer death in New Zealand.  

1 in 10 Kiwis diagnosed are under 50 and every day, around three New Zealanders die from bowel cancer.  

Now, keep these figures in mind when I tell you that Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced the Government is lowering the screening from 60 to 58 for all Kiwis – and canned plans to lower the age for Māori and Pacific men to...

A battle is underway for the future of one of New Zealand’s biggest media companies.

Auckland-based Canadian billionaire Jim Grenon has in the last fortnight emerged as one of the biggest shareholders in NZME – the owner of the NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB and many music radio stations.

And next month, he hopes to vote out the company’s current board members and install himself and three others at the company’s sh...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is heading to India, taking with him one of the largest delegations a New Zealand PM has ever travelled with. 

And, the fanfare makes sense, given we currently export $718 million worth of goods to India annually, but we don’t have a formal free trade agreement.  

With the world’s largest population and on track to become the world’s third largest economy by 2030 – ...

A brainchild of the previous Labour Government, the Healthy School Lunches Programme provides free lunches to about 242,000 students in greatest need.

Since its initial launch in 2019, the programme has often been a target by politicians and commentators over the cost involved in the scheme.

It’s now under the supervision of associate education minister David Seymour, and a cheaper alternative to it launched this year.

It alo...

New Zealand Police continue to monitor knife crime trends worldwide while other jurisdictions introduce tough new laws, getting ahead of the curve before it’s too late.

What they’re monitoring is reported offending involving knife crime – the likes of serious assaults and aggravated robberies.

Between December 2023 and December 2024, there were 1,639 incidents involving a stabbing or cutting weapon – a 1.7% ...

The Government’s focus on economic growth and foreign investment is back in the spotlight this week.

Later this week, the much-anticipated Investment Summit will take place in Auckland.

Businesses from over 14 countries, with six trillion dollars of capital, will be in attendance across Thursday and Friday, with Government Ministers and Labour representatives in attendance.

It comes at a critical time for the Government, with...

It may not have felt like we had much of a summer this year – but a cold snap in Auckland has signalled that the seasons are changing.

Temperatures dropped in our biggest city, as a cold front passed over much of New Zealand last week.

It comes as cyclone season continues in the Pacific, with Cyclone Alfred last week on Australia’s east coast.

With those hot summer nights fading into memory, today on The Front Page we&r...

French exchange student, Eloi Rolland, was last seen five years ago, today.

The then-18-year-old's disappearance has baffled authorities ever since... Was it a murder, kidnapping, an accident, did he get lost in the bush, commit suicide or plan an escape. Is he still alive, does he want to be found?

He searches Google Maps for directions to Piha about 5am the morning he vanished. He catches a train. He walks for nearly two hours. H...

In the new science fiction film Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson’s character Mickey Barnes is killed and each time he dies, a new copy of his body is printed out.

It’s a classic far-flung sci-fi premise -- but the technology it’s based on is far more science than fiction.

3D bioprinting is a technology that uses 3D printing to create tissues and organs from living cells and biomaterials.

The technology has been evolvin...

Anybody watching the Oscars would have noticed a common theme...  

It was probably about when host Conan O'Brien mocked streaming culture with a sketch introducing the idea of a 'building for movies' and getting people to 'stream movies in a theatre.'

And it wasn’t the first, or the last, reference to brick-and-mortar cinemas...  

Anora director Sean Baker used his acceptance speech for Best Director as a battle cry...

The Government plans to change laws to allow victims the right to choose whether a convicted sex offender gets permanent name suppression or not.

Now, automatic name suppression applies to protect witnesses and complainants under the age of 18 and those where certain sexual offences are alleged.

It’s a law that garners a lot of criticism from the general public – there is constant commentary on the perceived reasons why...

It’ll come as no surprise to anyone that meth is a serious problem in New Zealand.

Wastewater Testing results show the consumption of the drug in New Zealand more than doubled in the second half of 2024 to the highest levels ever recorded.

At the same time, the New Zealand Drug Trends Survey (NZDTS) 2024 showed the average price of a gram of meth declined from $563 in 2017/18 to $360 in 2024.

Meanwhile, Wastewater testing in ...