New Zealand
An AI-powered parking firm was pushed out of Oz. Its cameras are now ticketing Kiwis
238,000 tickets a year – and now it wants its AI-powered cameras in a carpark near you.
Latest from Overseas Investment Office
Stories and analysis from The Northern Express Herald.
Public farmland leased: $3.1b expressway deal approved
Approval clears a $3.1b deal securing a farmland lease for extension of State Highway 1.
One NZ and 2degrees propose combining radio access networks
The new company would manage shared antennas and mobile network towers.
Luxon will argue he had no mandate for radical public sector reform, but it may be too late
OPINION: Public service staff levels, RMA and the ComCom are all failed reforms.
Protesters target Data Centre Leaders Summit in Auckland
Professor sees "no pros", calls for binding referendum.
Deals worth $24b: Latest overseas investments revealed
Forestry, horticulture and mining featured in the latest OIO consent approvals.
An overseas investor has bought another Hawke’s Bay farm for forestry. Who are they?
An overseas investor has now bought four farms in the region in the space of 18 months.
Foreign buyer crypto flip scheme on Hawke’s Bay olive grove ends in $440k court fines
Klaus took a $1.4m loss on the deal but was apparently still happy to sell.
Ikea parent snaps up Tararua forest as local footprint tops 43,000ha
The 521ha Cypress Hill Forest boosts Ingka's New Zealand estate.
Abandoned data centre builds: Microsoft and Amazon hit by use-it-or-lose-it deadlines
PLUS: The latest on the MIA Spark surf park effort and Datagrid in Southland.
Auckland Airport digs in: Quarry near Ihumātao bought, housing ruled out for six pieces of land
Job creation, national benefit cited in deal for airport to buy land near Ihumātao.
Planet Fitness NZ venture collapses before first gym opens amid bitter dispute
Former chief executive Liam Brady says he was left unpaid when his role ended.
French fashion-house Chanel signs deal with NZ high country station
Lammermoor is NZ's largest organic farm and only certified organic fine wool producer.
The council telco business that could sell for $1b
The sale could fund expansion of Lyttleton Port.
Spark launches Starlink mobile-to-satellite: Some get it free, some have to pay
PLUS: 2degrees has updates on its AST SpaceMobile ground station in Marton.
US firm wins consent for $650m takeover of Wellington parts trader
Americans spotted growth in the Kiwi car parts trading business founded in 2004.
Property Insider: From Drury to Southland - the quiet giant betting billions on wind power and future freight
Calder Stewart has built 750,000sq m of new buildings for $1.5b-plus in last three years.
US asset manager gains consent for $250m deal to buy Wellington, Queenstown hotels
Vendor NZ Hotel Holdings is backed by the NZ Super Fund and partners.
Datagrid's $5.1b 'AI factory' faces three major hurdles
Why Chorus walked away from its Datagrid partnership.
Rydges Wellington, Sofitel Queenstown to be sold to Americans for $250m
NZ Hotel Holdings said last year it wanted to sell seven hotels: First two about to go.
Northland’s most expensive property of 2025 sells for $14.5m to foreign buyers
Northland's best real estate sales reveal that a little-known development tops the list.
Tesco walked away from talks to take on supermarket duopoly, documents show
Aldi and Lidl also declined to engage, leaving the supermarket duopoly intact.
What were the 10 biggest deals of 2025 where foreigners bought NZ assets?
The deals included $US700m being invested in the financial services business FNZ Group.
'A nice round number': Ikea owner sets sights on 100,000ha of local forests
Ingka already owns about 43,000ha of New Zealand forest worth $648m.