16+ hour, 19+ min ago   (295+ words) That is not the system failing. That is the system working exactly as designed, and that is the problem. Businesses hand the same information to the same regulator multiple times. Fees are high and opaque. The review produced 24 recommendations, from…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (243+ words) Waikato University is asking Hamilton City Council to waive more than $5 million in development contributions and hand over $250,000 a year for five years towards its new medical school, a total ratepayer contribution of roughly $7 million on a $280 million project. Councillor…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (460+ words) Westport is roughly 4,500 people, and Bathurst Resources employs more than 400 of them at the Stockton mine. Government assessment paperwork puts the figure at 317 direct employees, about 7% of the entire Buller workforce. Whatever number you use, the operation is the spine…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (428+ words) Winton Land is a profitable property developer with a governance architecture that no longer functions. Founder and majority shareholder Chris Meehan holds 55% of the company’s shares, enough to block any constitutional amendment requiring shareholder approval. That single number explains why…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (172+ words) The rural rate sounds modest until you apply it to farm-scale land values. Analysis from Caniwi Capital Partners puts a mid-sized dairy farm with $5.5 to $6 million of land value at $27,500 to $30,000 a year, with larger operations facing $50,000 or more. Federated…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (481+ words) Datagrid NZ chief executive Rémi Galasso is not underselling it. He says the project will be “not just the largest data centre project in New Zealand, but also one of the most sustainable data centre projects of that scale in…...