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France reintroduces 'bee-harming pesticides', environment minister to quit
Environment Minister Monique Barbut said she would resign over the bill.
France’s parliament close to adopting assisted dying law
The bill gives adults with incurable illness the right to assisted dying.
'Last resort': Parents prosecuted after failing to send kids to school for several years
The Bay of Plenty couple were given several warnings and “multiple interventions”.
Property development firm owes $73m as liquidators uncover shortfall
Its fixed assets total just $702,051 with only $120,000 in cash.
‘Go back to the sewers’: NZ's bitter fight over gay law reform
After a fierce 16-month battle, the Homosexual Law Reform Bill passed by just five votes.
Costly lesson: Shoddy sleepout build highlights risks of hiring unqualified tradies
Fixing the defects is expected to cost the homeowner a further $9400.
Potaka holds stand-up after scrapping controversial conservation land clauses
Tama Potaka, as the Minister of Conservation, is leading the bill through Parliament.
Extreme heat hits Europe: UK swelters in hottest June day on record
Temperatures hit 36.1C in southern England, the highest ever for June.
‘The market has moved underneath them’: Separating couples watching house prices fall
About 60% of separating couples are still living together after splitting.
'It hasn’t survived the test of time': Entire Auckland retirement village to be demolished
Apartments, hospital built at height of the leaky building era. All must be demolished.
Family complain after three-and-a-half-year wait for retirement village payout
A residents’ lobby group handled 168 complaints across New Zealand last year.
Benno Blaschke: Government cannot fix housing until it can take its hand off the brake
OPINION: Sir Bill English says risk is 'something that you take', not something to fear.
Six Auckland law firms warned in AML audit crackdown
Internal Affairs issued 10 formal warnings under 2009 anti-money laundering legislation.
Govt keen to repeal 152 laws – why you probably won’t notice they’re gone
The Government is embarking on an effort to repeal archaic legislation.
Deborah Chambers: The good in the Supreme Court’s Tamihere decision
Justice Ellen France’s judgment was praised for clarity and public transparency.
'Proportionally larger impact': Theft penalties to drive up women’s prison numbers
The women’s prison population is forecast to rise from 839 to 1370 by 2036.
Eric Crampton: Kalshi’s billion-dollar rise shows what iPredict couldn’t achieve in NZ
OPINION: iPredict once limited traders to deposits of just $2000, later $10,000.
Exclusive: Govt looking to allow 'click and collect' prescriptions
Associate Health Minister David Seymour calls it a common sense change.
Fast Track panel pauses Bream Bay sand mining bid amid raft of submissions
The pause follows 46 detailed submissions now before the Fast Track panel.
Facebook NZ sends $167m to Ireland, drains local bank accounts
New cash pooling arrangement introduced.
David Harvey: Why New Zealand’s age verification plan gets it backwards
OPINION: Age checks shouldn’t come at the cost of everyone’s privacy.
'People want protection': War anxiety fuels nuclear bunker boom
Inquiries to the Panic Room Company have doubled since the Iran war began.
'It was an icon': Bay of Plenty hot springs closes with $1m debt
Operator of 22 years says he put his 'heart and soul' in, but liquidation was necessary.
'You don't forget that': The rescue that haunts Coastguard volunteers
Multiple coroners' reports demand compulsory lifejackets, as the council eyes a bylaw.
Sink or swim: 8 minutes in the Manukau Harbour without a lifejacket
Tom Rose tested the case for tougher lifejacket laws by taking a dive without one.
Compulsory lifejackets for most Auckland boaties under proposed bylaw
Everyone who drowned in the region between 2021 and 2025 wasn’t wearing a lifejacket.
Hidden hazard: Auckland faultline capable of magnitude 6.8 quake
The Mangatangi fault has been confirmed active after rupturing within 10,000 years.
Teens having access to social media as harmful as smoking, experts tell UK lawmakers
Charities want film-style age limits put on social media content.
Trump’s White House ballroom in doubt after $1b security upgrade is ‘blocked’
Democrats say the lavish project jars with Americans’ rising living costs.