Lower interest rates in New Zealand generally stoke housing inflation. This creates few new jobs and little additional output, writes Peter Lyons.

There is no doubt New Zealand's economy needs to diversify, writes Kinley Salmon. In 2013, 44 per cent of our goods exports were animal and animal products

Migration flows into New Zealand continue to surge, with the latest figures from Statistics New Zealand showing a net gain of 6300 migrants last month.

Was the destruction of the Death Star merely an Imperial trap to financially bankrupt the Rebel Alliance?

A task force has been given $32 million of government funding to crack down on underpayment of workers in South Auckland.

The raising of interest rates by the United States Federal Reserve late last week is the best news in seven years for the world's economy.

There are concerns about workplace abuse after it was discovered some retail staff were being paid $7 an hour. The adult minimum wage in New Zealand is $14.75.

The US Federal Reserve's first interest rate hike in almost a decade is unlikely to derail equity markets, say market analysts.

Annual holidays are often our best chance to spend real quality time with our families and friends and to remember that most of us work to live not the other way around.

Regulatory questions are grabbing the headlines these days. How should one regulate health and safety?

There are three characteristics that should make you suspicious - and they will surprise you.

Investors can't ignore so-called Black Swan scenarios following a year that surprised the world with record refugee flows and brutal terror attacks.

Days after signing the Paris Climate Agreement, New Zealand has granted more permits for oil and gas exploration

The Government has softened some of its targets for achieving surplus and reducing debt in light of a deterioration in the books that makes it previous target harder to sustain.

But Finance Minister Bill English says he won't make any spending changes.

Climate change may still seem a distant threat, but a "Super El Nino" summer is already evident.

No one likes to leave a perfectly good job, but, sometimes, conflict at work makes you feel there's no other option.

Consumer sentiment eased in December but remains well above its recent lows, according to the latest ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence Index.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has given birth to twin girls and says she will only take a few weeks of maternity leave.

It is high time for the Government to go easy and give itself more room to manoeuvre in setting fiscal policy, writes Brian Fallow.

The Reserve Bank has cut its official cash rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 2.5 per cent, signalling a likely end to the current easing cycle.

Colin Andrew Craig, a 65-year-old from Christchurch, died in hospital after the accident at GVI Logistics in Ivan Jamieson Place, near Christchurch Airport.