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Watch: Nicola Willis v Barbara Edmonds Morning Report debate
National and Labour's finance spokespeople went head-to-head on Wednesday's Morning Report.

NZ First demotes four incumbent MPs in favour of newcomers
New Zealand First has released its party list for the election, and plenty of incumbent MPs have been shunted down in favour of hopeful newcomers.

AMD launches Ross AI assistant for embedded developers
By automating debugging, design and deployment tasks, Ross could cut development time for teams working across AMD's increasingly complex embedded stack.

Woman charged with attempted murder over knife attack unable to appear in court again
A 33-year-old woman is facing an attempted murder charge in relation to the knife attack that left a baby critically injured in Auckland's Glendene.

Kainga Ora ordered to pay $49,000 over 'deliberate' restructuring failures
The Employment Relations Authority found the Crown agency committed systemic breaches of good faith when making a manager redundant.

Transcript: Workday Elevate Auckland 2026
Westpac says the platform has cut leaders' admin by about two hours a week and improved trust in workforce data, freeing time for customer work.

Where you can vote in advance and on election day
Some locations will offer voting in te reo Maori or English, have sign language interpreters or be fully accessible.

NZ Cricket reveals decision-making behind controversial NZ20 call
The national body has admitted its decision to pursue the NZ20 league went against the initial lean of a key piece of independent advice.

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown calls National's road plan 'idiotic'
Auckland's mayor wants central government to stop making promises while expecting Aucklanders to foot the bill.

Soldier jailed for attempting to spy on Defence Force loses name suppression appeal
Jack Captein can now be named after losing an appeal against the decision refusing him name suppression.

GP suspended after warning of ‘Nuremberg part two’ during Covid-19
A Timaru doctor has been suspended after professional misconduct involving ivermectin, patient care, threatening emails to Medsafe and vaccine claims.

Westpac New Zealand replaces 26 HR systems with Workday
Westpac says the platform has cut leaders' admin by about two hours a week and improved trust in workforce data, freeing time for customer work.

IBM & Red Hat launch Lightwell remediation service
Enterprises running ageing Java libraries could get faster fixes, as the new service has already remediated more than 400 unknown vulnerabilities.

VMware users weigh alternatives as licensing costs rise
Rising VMware licensing bills are pushing 90% of surveyed users to consider rivals, with many also seeking third-party support and lower costs.

Both major party leaders agreed on one school-related issue. Do you?
When it came to the 1News Leaders Debate, Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins certainly didn’t agree on everything.

'Let's rally behind them': PNG commits to help Tuvalu at Pre-COP climate meet
Papua New Guinea has committed around US$5.5 million to Tuvalu over five years in aid of its coastal reclamation efforts.

Building Infrastructure for an AI World in Motion
As AI workloads shift from training to inference, firms risk stranded kit unless they build systems that can adapt over five to seven years.

Police urge group to break silence over woman’s death on Waiheke Island
Police believe a small group of people have information about the suspicious death of 32-year-old Chantelle McLaughlin-Middlemiss.