LGNZ President Dave Cull welcomes Minister of Local Government Hon Nanaia Mahuta’s announcement today that there will be a Productivity Commission inquiry into local government funding.

Orange-H Group, the McConnell entity set up to run down the residual Hawkins assets after the sale to Downer Group, has been tipped into receivership by its shareholder and creditor just 10 days after being ordered to pay $13.4 million over a leaky school

Critics Resent Heir’s Ability to Successfully Divine Future Public Preoccupations

So much to do so little time to do it in?  The real meaning of this is - you need a break!  Maybe its The Time Warp of Castro's Cuba, or it could be the Once-in-a-decade OBERAMMERGAU play but  if you can't wait till 2020 then there's Cruising the Coast of Vietnam.  All very different but each trip with a charm of its own - just click on the titles for details.

New Zealand's manufacturing activity accelerated in April, bouncing back from a lull in the first three months of the year, as a pick up in building intentions stoked production among building materials companies

While the business community’s response to a worker shortage in the Bay of Plenty is well known, workers who’re dealing with these issues every day have not yet had their say.

Robotics Plus CEO Steve Saunders announced it has signed an agency and distribution agreement with Global Pac Technologies which will see the company’s revolutionary robotic apple packers go global.   “Apple packhouses already use automation extensively for sorting and grading, but the  process of arranging apples in trays for export is still highly labour intensive and with labour shortages now causing major headaches for packhouses our packing technology can be a game changer," he said.

Margot Krasojević regularly produces thought-provoking architectural concepts, with recent examples including a house that screws itself into the ground during high winds and a floating revolving bridge.

The New Zealand Super Fund has invested US$65 million in Rubicon Global, an Atlanta-based waste and recycling technology company, to increase its exposure to small, fast-growing private companies

Paperwork needed to finish a Saudi agrihub project was located more than three years after 900 pregnant ewes were flown from New Zealand writes NZHerald political reporter, Nicholas Jones ,in today's Herald.