A government employee who was sacked after she accessed client records of Facebook 'friends' has won her job back until a full hearing can be held next year.

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.

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.

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.

The two faces of the North Island property market are reflected in new figures out today that show Auckland prices still largely surging.

More people lose their jobs in the lead-up to Christmas than in other times of the year, as employers take stock and plan for the year ahead.

It's time to realign our educational aspirations with economic reality.

A supermarket worker sacked over non-payment for a loaf of banana bread she wanted to gift to a blind woman says the incident had "ruined my life".

The Government wants to offer better incentives to get more foreign TV shows filmed in New Zealand.