Stories by Sharon Brettkelly

From the Treaty Principles Bill submissions to Rātana to the Waitangi Tribunal shake-up, 2025 looks to be a big year for race relations in Aotearoa.

Eden Park's CEO says his is the only option for Auckland's main stadium. But to survive, it will need to be more than a rugby park.

Main streets across New Zealand are run down and struggling, but Oxford Street provides inspiration.

How a solar power company backed by public funds and one of the world's largest asset managers went into liquidation.

It hasn't been plain sailing for the Interislander, but the government will announce plans for the ferries' future any day now.

"It's the transition of farmland and 10-acre blocks into high density, urban living," a local councillor says as a town turns into a city.

A look at some of the people who turned up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, hoping to advance plans for global change.

The Detail: The wreck of the Manawanui is leaving an oily sheen on the water, and taking the shine off the job of hosting world leaders, including the King.

The Detail: In the space of a decade, Featherston has reinvented itself.

Coaches, gels, health supplements, and even pyjamas. Menopause has become a marketing opportunity.

The Detail: New Zealand's booming video game industry reaches for $1 billion exports in the next few years.

The Detail: Historic arts precinct or drive-through takeaways? Inside the very Christchurch fight over food trucks.

The Detail: Historic arts precinct or drive-through takeaways? The very Christchurch fight over food trucks

The Detail - Winstone has shut down two mills citing high electricity costs - but Sequal Lumber mill in Kawerau is getting ready to double production.

The Detail - Recreational use of nitrous oxide has been reclassified. Some experts say it's an overcorrection.

As more and more healthcare becomes private, experts worry.

Auckland Airport's new Mānawa Bay mall is ritzy and glitzy, but only time will tell if people are bagging bargains, or just window shopping.

The tiny island of Guam is America's shield against Chinese moves in the Pacific, but that comes at the expense of its people

NZ's fashion industry is facing serious long-term problems, including the influx of cheap, shoddy clothing and way too much waste.

建筑纠纷法庭已经裁决支持承建方中国建筑集团的诉求，但开发商舜地拒绝付款。

On Auckland's skyline, the country's largest residential tower sits unfinished and exposed to the elements. 

Holiday homes sit empty while local families live in cars and on deteriorating boats.

The volume of people taking the new and effective weight loss drugs has grown so big that it's shrinking food portions in the US

Is New Zealand going through a bout of austerity ... or are we just in a funk after being battered by a parade of bad economic numbers?

Internationally ground-breaking research from inside the police force has quantified the difference between how Māori and Pākehā are treated when it comes to law