Mediawatch – John Campbell joined RNZ determined to lure TV viewers to Checkpoint. Three years later he’s heading back to TV and leaving media pondering precisely why, Colin Peacock writes.

New Zealand banks have been urged to catch up with international trends and offer special low interest loans to people building eco-homes.

The High Court has partially upheld a claim from a group of kiwifruit growers for damages over a PSA outbreak in 2010.

Inland Revenue will not penalise any traders who file late GST returns because of technical glitches that have affected its online payment system.

The Financial Markets Authority has given the NZX a black mark in an annual review of the market operator.

The Reserve Bank has held its cash rate unchanged as expected amid subdued inflation and softening economic growth.

New Zealand has recorded a trade surplus, led by record-high lamb exports.

Air New Zealand has been fined $A15 million ($NZ16.24m) by an Australian court for price fixing between 2002 and 2007.

Former Fonterra manager Leon Clement has been named the new chief executive of Synlait Milk.

Almost a third of New Zealand jobs will be automated by 2036, new research shows, prompting calls for a strategy to prevent a repeat of the unemployment rates seen in the ’80s and ’90s.