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'Really worried': National leader reacts as NZ inflation hits 30-year high
Cost of living rising at the fastest pace since 1990, Statistics New Zealand says.
Consumer card spending rises 1.9% in December
Increase in card spending providing both confidence and risk for 2022.
Opinion: It's going to be a painful wait for new housing in Wellington
Wellington City has consented 423 fewer new homes than it did in the previous year.
Whanganui employers struggle to fill jobs as unemployment drops
Businesses seeking staff are urged to contact the Ministry of Social Development for help.
Emissions from dairy farms highest ever
Environment Ministry blames fertilisers and says emissions from dairy cows are dropping.
Trust busting: Is it the beginning of the end for hiding relationship property?
Trusts used to hide relationship property are under attack and may be losing their power.
Bubble's brief boost: Stats show impact of Covid comeback in Oz
Covid's return in Australia during June reflected in travel stats.
Scientists reveal how lockdown cleared the air
A new study reveals the full picture of how lockdown temporarily cut NZ's air pollution.
Post-lockdown baby boom? Statistics reveal the opposite
A decline in births in the March quarter has shown there was no lockdown baby boom.
From high to low: Record migration plunge on full year of border closure
The first full year of closed borders is reflected in the latest migration numbers
'Really hard done by': The region where deaths are expected to outweigh births
The region's population in 2018 was 32,400 and it is predicted to be 30,600 in 2048.
Battle for identity: Fijian-Indians see themselves as Pasifika
Massey University sociologist says the community has a strong case.
Brian Fallow: Jobs bouncing back from Covid? Not so fast
PAYE data suggests employment hasn't recovered as strongly as believed.
Brian Fallow: Housing crisis only adds to inequality
While lower interest rates help homeowners, rising rents just add to pressure on the poor.
New house consents rise fast
Consents for new townhouses, flats, and units growing fastest.
Covid stress, job losses: Man's heart attack on Auckland Harbour Bridge
Researchers warn a rise in unemployment due to Covid could mean more heart attacks.
Climate Changed: How a warming world has already transformed NZ
Climate change isn't a future crisis, but one already transforming NZ, major report shows.
Returning Kiwis will profoundly change this country. But how?
Kiwis are returning home in droves as the world is brought to its knees by Covid-19.
What Covid crunch? Unemployment drops to 4 per cent
StatsNZ labour data defies expectations.
Revealed: Which regions are driving NZ's emissions?
Canterbury's cows singled out alongside Auckland's cars for driving NZ emissions.
Choke on this: Courgette prices hit record $21 a kilo
A shortage of courgette has seen prices spike in June.
Kiwi households now emit nearly as much as factories
Emissions from Kiwi households have swelled by almost 12 per cent over a decade.
Technology, innovation and entrepreneurship have role in recovery - report
The Government is recommended to apply a digital lens to all post-Covid recovery policies.
Population milestone - Baby Odette could be No. 5 million
Odette Deane was born in March - Stats NZ says our population hit 5 million that month.
'Significant' milestone: NZ's population hits 5 million
It took just 17 years to add one million people after hitting 4 million in 2003.
Analysis: Who are New Zealand's new jobless?
One of the biggest information gaps we have is real-time data on unemployment.
Panic buying boosts grocery sales in February
Panic buying appears to have put a spike in consumer spending stats for February.
PM announces larger-than-usual increases for social welfare benefits
The benefit increases are the largest since Bill English's one-off boost of $25 a week.
Focus Live: Salvation Army's State of the Nation report reveals Auckland's shock housing surplus
Focus Live: Salvation Army's State of the Nation report reveals Auckland's shock housing surplus.
Lower migration could 'bust' construction
Fewer migrants than previously thought could hit construction and labour markets.
Housing boost for urban confidence
Most parts of New Zealand more confident, especially the big cities.
NZ house-building hits highest mark since 1974
The great boom of the mid-1970s was the last time we saw houses spring up so fast.
'A merciful heart and peaceful mind': NZ's first baby of the decade
The precious bundle of joy has been dubbed New Zealand's first bub of the decade.