Ports of Auckland has been ordered to pay $40,000 for deliberately breaking the law by employing contractors during industrial action at the port.

Food prices fell 0.8 per cent last month, with vegetables leading the charge. Food prices have now fallen 0.6 per cent over the past year.

The Government's climate change policy is a shambles and a disgrace, writes Brian Fallow. "Unless, that is, you are happy for the costs of the inevitable adjustment to a low-carbon future to be needlessly increased."

A salesman who fell foul of his boss over a blow-up alien doll has been denied compensation.

Auckland City house values will shortly top the market peak of 2007 in real terms as a red-hot property market pushes up prices.

House sale volumes have hit a five-year high in the wake of booming prices, with a Real Estate Institute report showing sales up 24 per cent in a year.

Fonterra has revised its forecast payout range for the 2012/13 season to $5.90-$6 per kg of milksolids, up 25c per kg compared with the previous forecast.

A decision at the Doha climate conference which excludes New Zealand from international carbon markets will have little effect on consumers and emitters.

KiwiSaver investors are sending more money overseas...

Low-wage workers look likely to get a small pay rise of under 3 per cent next April after the Government removed social factors from the criteria for setting the minimum wage.

Something looking suspiciously like a cannabis leaf was in the company's logo, while its shops sold filter systems to mask the smell of the drug and bongs to smoke it.

The average selling price for homes in the Auckland market rose by 1.5 per cent last month, says the region's biggest real estate agency Barfoot and Thompson.

The New Zealand government's operating deficit was wider than forecast in the first four months of the financial year.

A Winz employee who helped family members - including her ex-husband, sister and stepdaughter - get jobs was justifiably sacked, the ERA has found.

A campaign has been launched to demand equal pay for women after finding that, on average, men are paid at least 10 per cent more than women. Have your say here.

Fonterra is hunting for new world headquarters.

The subsidy paid by the Government to The Hobbit could be prohibited under the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, says a leading trade specialist and author.