The rate has been steadily going up as businesses either sack staff or stop hiring.

More official cash rate cuts could now be on the cards in a further bid to try and revive the economy, experts say.

This is despite grocery prices stabilising last year.

The country’s last operational woollen dye house and spinning mill has been saved from the scrap heap.

Businesses on Auckland’s North Shore say they’re bucking the hard trading conditions faced by many.

Jetstar doesn’t have to offer pilots an alternative day off if they are on call on a public holiday but do not have to work, the ERA says.

Regional Development Minister Shane Jones and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters have visited Northland to inspect a jet fuel storage project on the site of the old oil refinery.

There is still almost $48 million unpaid from 2018 – and $1.471 billion from the most recent year.