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October 2026

  1. Mo'unga back as Rennie lists Fainga'anuku among loose forwards for northern tour

  2. Move-on orders: what police can require, of whom, and what a breach costs

  3. ACT wants 10,000 charter school students by 2029. Labour would move the schools into the state system

  4. Heartland executives get six of 10 top jobs at proposed TSB Heartland Bank, with no place for TSB's CEO or CFO

  5. Patched PHP isn't the end of it: a new flaw, hidden copies and leaked memory

  6. High Court rules Crown's Māori Wardens funding deal unlawful

  7. Health targets are crowding out follow-up care, senior doctors' union says

  8. Fuel bill nearly doubles, pushing September trade deficit to $2b

  9. Enrolment closes tomorrow night, with youth sign-ups ahead of 2023

  10. Qantas points stop working on Air NZ domestic flights from 7 April 2027 as Air NZ moves to Virgin

  11. NCSC says patch PHP now; consultant's scan finds most .nz sites that show their PHP version still exposed

  12. Threat to burn Maketū Marae as Kāwhia landowners shut beach to vehicles

  13. Westpac switches to an October hike as banks back a 3% cash rate

  14. .com price rises at 5pm on 1 November: renew the names you'll keep, leave the rest

  15. Labour says Government's AI strategy 'not fit for purpose' as rival plans go on record

  16. Silver Ferns lead Constellation Cup 2-0, but only a sweep makes them No 1

  17. Labour would keep National's health targets, and says some 'free GP' visits could be with nurse practitioners

  18. South Island house prices rise as North Island falls and national sales drop 11.6%

  19. NZME proposes newsroom and digital job cuts as all three big news employers shrink before the election

  20. Watson appeal: Crown says case is 'overwhelming' without Wallace's montage identification

  21. Auckland GP clinic shuts until it can hire staff as practices limit new patients

  22. Pioneer Battalion descendants carve a waka for Arras

  23. Plimmer's career-best 85 not out nearly carries new-look White Ferns past Australia

  24. Watson's lawyers tell Supreme Court police 'primed' key witness before montage identification

  25. India trade deal takes effect, but dairy gets three tariff lines and a promise of review

  26. Learning-support waiting list shrinks by 583 in a year

  27. KiwiRail puts up to $37.5m into Picton ferry works, but summer Cook Strait crossings stay tight

  28. Pike River leads NZ Screen Awards finalists as co-productions lead television

  29. Tuliau-Tua'a scores four as Black Ferns beat young France side 81-12

  30. Food prices flat in September, but supermarket groceries cost 3% more than a year ago

  31. National's $15.4b health plan mostly keeps services running, and sets nothing aside for GPs

  32. Government names tourism advisory group

  33. Tāwhaki returns to Manutūkē from Munich, on loan but expected to stay

  34. Ponga breaks arm after two-try debut as Kiwis fall 24-22 to Australia

  35. Christchurch and Ashburton family lawyers will have to file through new court portal from March 2027

  36. Westpac expects Thursday's inflation dip to be brief, with a 4.2% peak by December

  37. Ransomware is rising fast, but New Zealand's cyber insurance is still easy to buy

  38. Former soldier convicted of attempted espionage named after losing suppression bid

  39. Treasury calls affordability a 'major concern' for five regional hospital rebuilds

  40. Card spending falls for a second month, contradicting bank data before OCR call

  41. Overseas visitors back to 99% of 2019 levels, with China and Queenstown driving growth

  42. SpaceX's US spectrum deal knocks Spark and tests NZ's airwaves policy

  43. Western Sydney opens on 25 October, making Air NZ's Auckland flight next day its first international service

  44. Moriori Language Week returns, still without official status

  45. Rennie makes eight changes for Sydney Test as Holland returns and Kirifi gets a surprise bench spot

  46. House sales fall 11.6% as the spring lift fails to arrive

  47. Food regulator's own assessment said silverbeet with banned pesticide could harm children. No recall was issued

  48. National would make students finish Year 11 before they can leave school

  49. Govt.nz wallet still close to empty as digital driver licence slips to late 2027

  50. Lawson's Singapore double strengthens his 2027 case as Racing Bulls decision nears

  51. All Blacks hit 50 to keep the Bledisloe Cup, but Rennie's injury list grows before Sydney

  52. NZ First would make the Working for Families boost permanent at $120

  53. Seymour and Peters keep their hands down as Waititi offers to share te reo

  54. National rules out tax cuts for four years: how its plan and Labour's compare on household costs

  55. National drops Super age date, leaving ACT and NZ First on opposite sides

  56. Stuff consultation closes as union names the 18 regional newsroom roles at risk

  57. Te Pāti Māori puts te reo on its voter menu as Hipkins rules out a Treaty watchdog that could halt Cabinet

  58. Labour would scrap the daily hour for reading, writing and maths

  59. Crown accounts show $8.7b deficit as net debt rises to $186.8b

  60. Auckland Airport's $3.9b rebuild: new check-in hall by year's end, full terminal in 2029

  61. Te Papa's senior Māori curator leaves as its chief executive steps down

  62. Christchurch's long-haul summer starts this month: what's flying and when

  63. Commerce Commission takes two review sites to court over paid rankings

  64. Govt.nz app's digital IDs are due this month, six months after the minister's end-of-March promise

  65. Ponga and Gagai switch to the Kiwis as Jones gambles on one hooker

  66. National would cut Jobseeker rates for long-term recipients and drug-test beneficiaries; Peters says it borders on fascist

  67. What ACT's tax-free KiwiSaver would be worth at 65, and why NZ First's figures rest on a disputed rate

  68. 1,615 new domain applications are now public. Check them for your brand, and check again after 22 October

  69. Hijacked .gh, .sl and .as registries gave attackers valid Google certificates

  70. Southland urology at 'extreme' risk as Health NZ pays locums $3000 a day

  71. Skim milk powder hits its highest price since 2022 as butter falls at dairy auction

  72. Heartland's TSB deal passes shareholder vote, but the Reserve Bank and a Deloitte review still stand in the way

  73. Tourists and migrants owe Health NZ more than $70m, and a quarter of it may never be paid

  74. Law firm took six months to report email hack it didn't recognise as a privacy breach

  75. Refixing this spring? Where mortgage rates sit before the 28 October OCR decision

  76. McKenzie starts at 10 for Bledisloe opener after Mo'unga is ruled out with calf injury

  77. Unfinished NZ visitor visa drafts in the old online system will be deleted tomorrow

  78. Firearms licence decisions now go to an independent committee, and the regulator is called FSENZ

  79. Shoppers cut back for a second month as petrol and mortgage costs bite

  80. Power bills change on 30 October. Here's what's pushing them up

  81. ACT would scrap tax on KiwiSaver earnings and drop the Government top-up. Here's how the three main KiwiSaver plans compare

  82. Nine Education Ministry insiders back claims staff were told not to put things in writing to avoid the OIA

  83. Government's 8700 job-cut plan relies on AI, but its papers don't say how many jobs AI can replace

  84. Petrol back near $3.50 a litre, and the AA says relief may not come until Christmas

  85. Julian Wilcox takes the chair at Te Taura Whiri, and also sits on the Whakaata Māori board

  86. Japan beat All Whites 2-1 to win Kirin Cup

  87. The Arms Act 2026 is in force, and Police no longer license gun owners

  88. Labour costs $4-an-hour care pay rise but not its plan to restore pay equity

  89. National promises paperless trans-Tasman trial before 2028 but Australia hasn't signed on

  90. France to tour without captain Bourdon Sansus for Black Ferns series

  91. Labour would register lobbyists, limit urgency and scrap the ratepayer roll

  92. Ponsonby early learning centre shuts over recalled rangoli powder as Diwali nears

  93. Aimee Bright snatches iQFOiL Under-23 world title at the final mark

  94. Film Commission to end core funding for 10 screen guilds, including Ngā Aho Whakaari

  95. Privacy Commissioner gives Manage My Health and Health NZ until 2027 to fix security

  96. Fewer firms plan price rises even as oil costs bite, ANZ survey shows

  97. New home consents stay above 40,000 for a third month as headwinds build

  98. Auckland Airport's terminal rebuild passes halfway, with shared check-in next

  99. .au wholesale price rises 86 cents today, and a new rebate goes to registrars

  100. Licence actions against early childhood centres fell from 320 to 80 in two years, and ERO is now the regulator

  101. ERO drops colour-coded school ratings after principals said they penalised poor communities

  102. Free bowel screening now starts at 56, but only in some regions

  103. Brownlie takes interim charge as White Ferns recall four for first series without Devine, Tahuhu and Bates

  104. Emergency doctors say EDs are in 'crisis'. How hospitals are doing on the six-hour target

  105. Silver Scroll finalists include the first song entirely in gagana Samoa

  106. Codie Taylor to captain injury-hit All Blacks as Scott Barrett returns with 50 minutes behind him

  107. Auckland Council drops postal voting after Papatoetoe fraud, tells staff to halve the cost

  108. Late England intercept ends Black Ferns' unbeaten 2026 at Twickenham

  109. Paper forms end tomorrow for most New Zealand visitor and transit visas

  110. Teachers' union panel warns NCEA replacement could leave more students without a qualification

  111. 2degrees returns to profit as it seeks approval to merge its mobile network with One NZ's

  112. From tomorrow, pharmacists can supply funded thrush, skin and pill treatments without a prescription

  113. Stuff proposes regional newsroom cuts, blaming the cost of putting out a paper

  114. Cruise season opens with fewer passengers as Princess promises to double New Zealand calls from 2028

  115. Labour promises to cut student loans by 10%, but fees-free graduates would miss out