Data from credit reporting firm Centrix shows consumer credit demand is down 9% in the year to March, and mortgage applications down 19%.
The volcano is currently experiencing the highest levels of volcanic tremors seen in the past nine years.
Sri Lanka is experiencing power cuts and rapidly rising food prices. Chamanthie Sinhalage-Fonseka says it’s “confusing, it’s worrying, it’s certainly scary”.
Injuries and the Covid-19 pandemic nearly saw Grace Jale walk away, before she joined the Wellington Phoenix last year.
James Shaw and Marama Davidson want to see limits on annual rent increases and a temporary freeze rents until annual limits are in place.
Multiple people have been arrested in a police operation targeting gangs in Hawke's Bay and Tairāwhiti.
One man had a lot to say to the Australian PM at the election campaign event.
A homicide investigation into the death of Maraea Smith continues.
The Blues wing will miss crucial games against Chiefs, Crusaders and Fijian Drua after being found guilty at a judicial hearing.
After being given a one-year suspended prison sentence, Brad Takairangi is now available for Super League selection.
The fossil was unearthed from a mass grave in North Dakota.
There are 639 people in hospital with the virus.
The former All Black says shifting to the old rivals after 12 years at the Crusaders was "out of my comfort zone".
Ten Kiwi females completed a two-point, 10-way formation over Lake Taupō earlier this week, but there's plenty more happening in NZ's skies.
Eagle-eyed question time viewers may have spotted a new addition to the usual scenes at Parliament this week.
Some illnesses have been linked to the product overseas.
The outgoing Director of Public Health plans to return to NZ at some point, but doesn't have a job lined up.
Police say the group fled the scene in a Toyota Aqua.
Graham Shaw has ended his three-year tenure with the side less than three months out from their Birmingham campaign.
The film KillRoy Was Here will be exclusive to 5555 buyers.
The incidents involved a man and his long-term partner at a home in January 2020.
An investigation was launched in July 2020 after claims of sexual abuse against women and children at the West Coast commune.
It comes after members of the Opposition questioned its timing and potential economic impacts.
The claim was made on behalf of over 60 kura and 6500 students nationwide, and alleges the Crown has breached the treaty in its obligations to Kura Kaupapa.
It was New Zealand's most decorated infantry battalion in WWII, but over 600 men of the 28th Māori Battalion never received their war medals.
Courtney Duncan acknowledged her latest crash will put an end to her quest for a much sought-after four-peat.
It follows the death of a woman in Woolston on Monday night.
Carter is aiming to kick 1598 goals over the next 24 hours to raise money for kids in need in the Pacific.
New Zealand will soon be welcoming those who have been successful in applying for one of the Government’s special visas.
A broken-down car is a first in the remarkable sporting career of the former Olympic rower and cyclist.
"They had the same arguments when it came to things like the Anzac holiday... you don't hear that catcall now," Labour's Kiritapu Allan said.
The Ministry of Education is asking schools, kura, whānau and health professionals to have their say.
