17+ hour, 48+ min ago   (117+ words) Seymour takes the anti-Kate Sheppard line to fix ‘terrible’ pub licensing Newsroom Business news in association with A former part-owner of a suburban Auckland tavern says he sold his share of the business after more than a year spent battling…...

17+ hour, 55+ min ago   (92+ words) Newsroom Four AI data centres in the development pipeline are expected to collectively consume more electricity than the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. The National, Labour and Green parties all want to see data centre developers bring their own energy supplies…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1043+ words) Prefer Newsroom on Google When Mayor Wayne Brown tells you direct to your face that your organisation is in a “whoop, whoop, pull-up, pull-up stage of life” and to plan for a “disaster scenario”, it tends to focus the mind....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (146+ words) Relying on ‘Temu census’ discounts value of unpaid work Newsroom Comment: I have still got my holiday afterglow after spending nearly a month exploring outback Australia, even though the Wellington wind and rain this week has been doing its best…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago   (110+ words) Newsroom Business & investing: After the ‘will they, won’t they?’ hike debate associated with the Reserve Bank’s last monetary policy decision in July, this week’s outcome is already shaping up as a virtual certainty. Economists unanimously expect the central bank will…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (816+ words) Prefer Newsroom on Google Comment: Newsroom recently published an article claiming that MP Jenny Marcroft’s proposed definition of “woman” and “man” “fails basic science”. Yet the article itself does not accurately describe basic science. It asks readers to believe that…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (753+ words) Expert opinion from University of Auckland - Waipapa Taumata Rau Comment: Seventeen years ago, Google started teaching cars to drive themselves. At the time, fully autonomous vehicles were still somewhere between serious engineering and science fiction. Auckland’s modern search for another…...