The current head of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, who also led Māori Television for nine years, will replace Richard Griffin as chair of RNZ.

Jamie Tuuta has been announced to replace Dame Georgina te Heuheu Māori Television’s board chair.

Today is Tax Freedom Day – the day when you stop working for the government and start working for yourself.

Banks have been given two weeks to outline what steps they have taken to convince financial regulators that customers here are not being ripped off.

Overseas investors are agressively buying New Zealand commercial property and pushing prices out of the reach of local buyers, a commercial real estate broker says.

Former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn has been accused of conspiring to mislead US regulators about the carmaker’s emissions in a scandal that has been called ‘dieselgate’.

Megan Woods says she remains convinced the petrol market is not working for motorists, after meeting with BP executives.

The Bank of New Zealand has made a strong profit, driven up by growth in customer deposits and savings.

Bank customers are criticising tactics being used in New Zealand, as banks across the Tasman face the fallout from a scathing royal commission.

The country’s biggest fuel company, Z Energy, has reported a modest lift in its profit as competition and supply disruption partly offset increased sales and higher margins.