Mary Williams

Higher mortgage interest rates, a squeezed and pricey housing rental market, and other cost-of-living hikes are stretching some family budgets beyond the limit.

Higher mortgage interest rates, a squeezed and pricey housing rental market, and many other cost-of-living hikes are stretching some family budgets beyond the limit.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Let’s hope it’s not a skein of geese hitting a passenger aircraft. Mary Williams reports on the increasing risk of geese to farms, waterways and aviation - and rising voices for national action to stop them.

The University of Otago is heading into deep debt, for the first time in modern history, and its balance sheets are facing greater scrutiny by the university financial watchdog.