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Rotorua's mayor has expressed concern a Kāinga Ora submission on a proposed district plan change could lead to six-storey buildings being zoned outside of the inner city.

Work is soon to be begin above ground for a new $26 million visitor centre on the West Coast.

King Charles will host his first state visit since his accession to the British throne when he welcomes South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.

The controversial sale of the local lines company in Gisborne will go ahead, pending Overseas Investment Office approval.

The Solomon Islands organisers of the 2023 Pacific Games marked the beginning of a one-year countdown with a noisy parade and a stirring dance performance at the weekend.

A dwindling workforce and tricky legal territory is putting the world of fossil hunting on shaky ground.

The controversial sale of the publicly owned electricity lines company in Gisborne would leave the region in a "precarious" state, a councillor says.

Organic farmer John Earney has been hosting WWOOFers on his Taranaki farm for ten years. "Willing Workers on Organic Farms or World Wide Workers on Organic Farms but I say willing workers because if…

Development West Coast says the Jobs for Nature programme helped to keep key people in the community when tourism work dried up.

New data suggests Otago is bouncing back from the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic.

New players are joining the race to provide satellite broadband to rural communities through a constellation of satellites travelling less than 2000km above the Earth.

Consumers are frequenting central business districts less and changing when they shop and take part in leisure activities, a Mastercard chief economist says .

Economic activity has remained elevated in the third quarter of the year, driven by stronger tourism activity and solid household spending.

The housing affordability crisis is continuing to grow in Queenstown Lakes, even as property values decline across the rest of the country.

Dunedin Mayor Jules Radich says there is "no cause for alarm" over news there were hundreds of Covid-19-positive cruise passengers on a ship that docked in Dunedin.

More than 800 covid cases in Tuvalu; Torres wants election debates in Marianas; and PNG suffer embarrassing football loss

Emerging tourism leaders are urging young people to start thinking of the industry as a career and not just short-term jobs on the way to something better.

Palau has raised the issue of its prized jellyfish and the economic impact of losing millions of them, during talks at Cop27 in Egypt.

Tourism leaders are grappling with the future of their industry as the impacts and disruptions of climate change become more widely felt. Audio

A multi-million dollar fund is now available for innovative tourism projects to help the industry become more sustainable and resilient.