New spending in transport bypasses Auckland and goes regional.

Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell has secured $17.8 million to get a new Maori land service up and running.

Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce announced an extra $410.5 million to fund science projects.

Cash boosts for our largest funds for mission-led research have been welcomed by New Zealand's independent government body for the sciences.

Electricity producers, transport fuel providers and industries with high carbon emissions will lose access to the subsidy that requires them to offset only half their emissions.

Population growth, tourism, construction and low interest rates will underpin a robust economic outlook for the next four years.

Bill English has unveiled a rosier set of fiscal projections as the fastest population growth in 40 years drives economic growth, turning around a deficit last year.

The economics of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter continue to slide, Woodward Partners energy analyst John Kidd says.

There needs to be support for the alleged bully as well as the bullied in conflicts

COMMENT: Set yourself regular checking times, but not in your prime creative time.

Are you more likely to meet your boss's expectations than your own?

The Kiwi fell as traders continued to see the possibility of US interest rates rising next month.

WATCH: Westpac chief economist Dominick Stephens says he expects forecasts in this week's Budget to be overly optimistic.

Soaring house prices spurred by Auckland's rampant real estate market is one of the most pressing problems facing John Key ahead of Thursday's Budget.

COMMENT: It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why the Government isn't making election promises to those in need.

Watch: Economy Hub: Does the PM's promise of $3b in tax cuts threatens to make next week's budget "obsolete".

When this CEO gets the occasional phone call from a shareholder they're genuinely taken aback to be speaking directly to the boss rather than his PA.

COMMENT: PwC partner Andy Symons what an innovation ecosystem can look like.

New Zealand inflation expectations rose slightly in the Reserve Bank's latest quarterly survey, after the previous survey's surprisingly weak outcome.

Dairy prices should start improving 'in the medium term'.

Sometimes the answer is just to do less.

A worker was sent home and told to undergo a psychiatric assessment without consultation.

Follow these five shortcuts to wellness to avoid burnout

On the whole, technology has benefited humanity greatly, especially us Kiwis stuck at the bottom of the globe.

COMMENT: Many still have money over there long after they've arrived in NZ sitting in pounds earning next to nothing, or invested in various UK funds and shares.

Reserve Bank debt-to-income caps would be disastrous for house buyers and the residential and building sector, says a real estate chief.

Former Nike innovation expert Erez Morag told the Tripartite Summit in Auckland that innovation comes from cross pollination.

Net migration in New Zealand is the highest it has been since at least 1978 - and possibly ever.