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Budget 2026 contains funding for just one Road of National Significance and will help ensure state highways are resilient due to severe weather events.

Significant investment in social and affordable housing is crucial to solving New Zealand's housing crisis and ending homelessness, a new report says.

Health gets $5.8 billion of new spending, including a $5.5b increase to frontline services over four years.

As promised, the Finance Minister has delivered a bread-and-butter Budget 2026, with few big surprises and no sign of a lolly scramble.

Tourism operators are bracing for more frequent storms after some experienced their most weather-disrupted summer on record.

International food company McCain has turned down a request from Hawke's Bay mayors asking for a pause on the factory's closure while growers try to find a solution for a possible takeover.