Wellington retailers in the central shopping corridor are scared a plan to ban cars from the area will cause businesses to close or abandon the area.

Talks are under way with New Zealand’s only oil refinery about potentially using the facility to make biofuels.

The Reserve Bank is to get another weapon to combat a hot housing market and the threat it may pose to the financial system.

The pace of house price growth is slowing at the top and bottom end of the market.

Apple exporter Scales Corporation has pulled out of the bidding for winemaker Villa Maria.

A digital revolution is transforming the investment scene, but throwing up issues of security.

The median house price across the country rose to $820,000 in May – an increase of $200,000 in one year.

SkyCity provided a detailed forecast after what is says was a strong performance in electronic gaming machines in New Zealand.

New Zealanders are concerned the government and business leaders are not moving fast enough on climate change.

Slowing house prices, rising inflation pressures, and sooner-than-expected rises in interest rates will be prominent in the near-term economic outlook, according to ASB Bank.