Business owners and their customers say central Auckland feels increasingly unsafe and uninviting – and are arguing that coordinated action is needed now.

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Duncan Greive is joined by The Spinoff’s Alex Casey and Lyric Waiwiri-Smith, two longtime Swift fans, to discuss an album that promised much but felt like a letdown to many.

Large corporations have the resource to support kids' sports in New Zealand, but it's all in service of training unhealthy consumers.

Has your friend started wearing a suit, posting from ‘business conferences’ and using the diamond emoji a lot? They may have ...

Winner: the endless cycle of underinvestment in core infrastructure. Big loser: the pipes.

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Half a century after documenting the decline of te reo Māori, a leading researcher reflects on how close we came to losing our language – and what must happen now to keep it alive.

Yet the ideological mood may not be as clear-cut as that stat suggests. Despite widespread frustration over rates increases, only around 20% of Act candidates won a council seat in the party’s first ...