Items filtered by date: Tuesday, 02 December 2014

The highway linking the West Coast and Otago closed after 7 am this morning due to a rockfall on the Otago side.

Technical mining experts gather in Greymouth for the next two weeks to look at risks involved in each of the three re-entry options the Pike River Recovery Agency is investigating for the Pike River Mine.

In partnership with our sister group, the Auckland Ratepayers Alliance, the Taxpayers' Union has just published this year's Ratepayers' Report – online local government league tables – at www.ratepayersreport.nz.

The Employment Relations Amendment Bill as reported back to Parliament today remains harmful and oppressive, says BusinessNZ.

New Zealand company ODocs Eye Care has signed its first overseas international partnership with Riyadh’s King Saud University, which is the biggest medical university in the Arab world.

The SBT Group purchase of Liqueo earlier this year from Christchurch based Scales has assisted Scales search for new agri-businesses which better match its remaining portfolio.

Hamish Rutherford reporting in the Sunday Times for Stuff  writes that the mood of boardrooms is currently highly pessimistic, which some take as a sign of a slowdown while others claim should be dismissed as a poll by executives of the Labour-led Government.

James Dyson award winner and Massey University industrial design graduate Holly Wright with her therapeutic equestrian saddle for disabled riders.

Following MPI’s revised directions issued under s122 of the Biosecurity Act, the affected apple and stonefruit industry group is taking some time to fully review the new directions and the accompanying testing plan.

Kiwi businesses can now afford to protect themselves against intellectual property (IP) risks, thanks to an audacious move by Delta Insurance.