Is New Zealand going the right way about winning medals or are we slipping further behind Australia?

Film studios are more likely to make big-budget movies in NZ because they will benefit from broader tax rebate rules, the Govt says.

No one will remember any prime ministerial egg-on-face when the Hobbit omelette is finally cooked.

A $1.3 billion offer for South Canterbury Finance appears to have been rejected after Treasury received advice that the deal was not necessarily the best one it could get.

South Canterbury Finance chief executive Sandy Maier became a director of Ngai Tahu Holdings the day after Allan Hubbard's finance company was placed in receivership.

The Govt's financial statements show the deficit shrank as bigger returns from the ACC and the Cullen Fund kicked in.

Prime Minister John Key yesterday poured cold water on Super City Mayor-elect Len Brown's ambitious plans for rail.

For some professionals this week's tax cuts make them wealthier than before. Others take home less money than they did six years ago.

Two radio-thons held in Tonga over the past week have raised almost $600,000 for the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Fund.

The "GST-income tax switch" will from tomorrow leave the vast majority of income earners with at least a few more dollars in their pockets each week.

A 3D software company that has so far received more than $14m from taxpayers says it cannot guarantee it will keep jobs in NZ.

Sir Barry Curtis put $100,000 on his council credit card in his final term as Manukau City Mayor.