British households will face a tight squeeze on living standards from higher-than-expected inflation over the next year.

Peter Dunne has defended the timing of the announcement of eight job losses at the IRD in Greymouth.

More than 50 sawmill workers at two North Island sawmills have been told they will lose their jobs.

Stay-at-home mums are an endangered species these days. I was one once and even then it was hard work explaining why.

More can be done to improve the tax system to promote economic growth, says Treasury secretary John Whitehead.

Bill English says the long term outlook for the NZ economy is good, but the recovery will be flatter in the short term.

Unemployment numbers just released show NZ's jobless rate has fallen from 6.9 per cent to 6.4 per cent - better than many were expecting.