Mike Sanford

Cameron McIntosh is the new Southland District Council chief executive. Southland District Mayor Gary Tong said he was extremely pleased to announce Mr McIntosh’s appointment. “Cameron stood out because of his knowledge of local government, his commitment to people, including our staff and our commu

Fonterra has posted a profit of $659 million as restructuring, improved sales and margins helped it recover from the previous year’s massive loss. The profit to the end of July compared with a $605m loss the year before, as the co-operative wrote down the value of assets and took other hits worth $8

The Gore District Council’s resource consent applications to build a cable-stay bridge across the Mataura River, near the existing Gore traffic bridge, has attracted 46 submissions. There are: 26 in opposition 17 in support 2 neutral 1 in support of the concept but opposing the site The resource con

Weird History presents Timeline 1986 – we’re going back to ’86, prime 80s, when we would see terrible tragedies such as the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion and Chernobyl meltdown. But it wouldn’t be all bad news, 1986 would also see such highlights as the inception of Pixar, Clint Eastwood became

Three lucky Lotto players from Auckland, Hawera and Queenstown will be celebrating in style after each winning $333,333 with Lotto First Division in tonight’s live Lotto draw. The winning tickets were sold at Smart Superette in Auckland, Pak N Save Hawera in Hawera and Night n Day Church Street in Q

National’s promising a short-term package of tax cuts – worth about $4.7 billion – to kick start the economy. Leader Judith Collins and finance spokesperson Paul Goldsmith announced the policy in Wellington this morning. Watch the announcement Here: The changes would be made by significant increases

Heavy rain about the Tararua Range easing. Westerly gales in the far south. Heavy rain about the Tararua Range should ease this (Friday) morning as the cold front, which brought snow, heavy rain and gale northwesterlies to parts of central and southern New Zealand, moves away to the north. Meanwhile

Wondering about who stands for what? Welcome to RNZ’s go-to guide for party policy this election. We’ve put together a directory with some brief information about what the parties represented in the last Parliament would do if they were re-elected. Labour leader Jacinda Ardern, National leader Judit