A Hamilton family has lost valuable belongings after an international moving company hit the wall.

My mother had clinical depression. As a consequence, I experienced difficult and upsetting moments in my childhood - none more so than when she was absent from home, residing in a psychiatric hospital.

As the end of the year approaches, deadlines get closer and the pressure starts to mount. It's easy to find ourselves working long coffee-fuelled hours and feeling near the end of our tether.

Steve Saunders' initial exposure to the horticultural innovation that has been a hallmark of his career came in the 1990s.

Embattled public service supremo Iain Rennie enjoyed a $50,000 salary bump last year, but it was eclipsed by several other public sector bosses.

New Zealand food prices fell in November led by cheaper spring time vegetables and cheese prices.

John Key drew criticism over an OECD report which estimated that growth in income inequality over 20 years has knocked 10 percentage points off NZ's economic growth.

The NZ economy would have been 10pc larger were it not for a steep rise in income inequality in the late 1980s, says OECD report.

Holidays. They should be a time to recharge, relax and enjoy a change of pace. But the hardest part can be the unwinding, breaking the routine ... and turning the mobile phone off.

Lower petrol prices contributed to a 0.1 per cent fall in the amount consumers charged to electronic cards last month.

NZIER's monetary policy shadow board believes the Reserve Bank should keep its official cash rate on hold at 3.5 per cent tomorrow, as the financial markets are confident it will.

One of the features of KiwiSaver is you can take a holiday from contributions.

How many accountants will soon be out of a job because they are not tech-oriented, or open to redesigning their business?

Interest rates lower for longer is expected to be the guidance from the Reserve Bank's quarterly monetary policy statement on Thursday.

Low-paid women throughout New Zealand are lining up for what may be the biggest push in almost 40 years to close the pay gap with men - this time through the courts.

As the economy keeps growing steadily, many mid-market companies find themselves with an abundance of growth opportunities within New Zealand.

Teresa Ciprian, a former executive at French food giant Danone, is Zespri's first woman director.

Designed to catch you out or trip you up, this age old interview probe can actually be taken as a positive question.

Manukau Institute of Technology is holding a computer programming competition for schoolgirls aimed at tackling the lagging number of women working in the ICT sector.

The Govt is eyeing Australian moves against foreign property speculators amid fresh claims they are forcing Kiwi first-home buyers to the property sidelines.

New vehicle sales reached their highest ever for November with 2014 expected to be a record year.

Joyce Russell answers reader questions about pursuing a job lead, the threat of being fired and leveraging offers.

By focusing on a 1 per cent daily improvement in any area of life, you'll become more effective in a short period of time, writes Robyn Pearce. .

Disruption is shaking up the existing order in today's workplaces. The aim of Frog Recruitment's final iNTRAPRENEUR breakfast for 2014 was to find out if we need to panic about the breakthrough disruptions that are reshaping the world of work.

The Reserve Bank of Australia said its currency, near a 4-year low, remains overvalued and needs to decline further to assist the economy, which is growing at a moderate pace.

The rock-star economy will give an encore next year, says the economist who attached that label to New Zealand.

On his 60th birthday Woody Allen is supposed to have joked that "practically a third of my life is over". Optimistic maybe, but illustrative - as Patrick Nolan explains.