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State-owned farming enterprise Pamu selects new equity partners for Mahiwi farm
The nine-year lease will run with a right of renewal every three years.

'Forced off the land': Lifestyle block owner hits out at Napier's plan to make rates 'fairer'
The council plans to chnage more than 1000 properties within the council's boundaries from "rural" to "residential".

Kiwis say less ‘I do’ as marriages fall and divorces tick up
It’s becoming less ‘I do’ and a little more ‘I’m done’ in New Zealand, with new figures showing fewer couples are getting married while divorces have edged up.

Boy, 11, missing from Hamilton for five days
An 11-year-old boy has been missing from Hamilton for five days.

Payments NZ appoints Michael Ahie as Chair of Board
Payments NZ names Michael Ahie as Board Chair to provide continuity as it works with banks, regulators and government on payments modernisation.

Tiwai Point workers go on strike over slow pace of collective employment agreement talks
Workers at Tiwai Point aluminium smelter say they are sick of waiting after more than two years of unsuccessful bargaining.

Affordable cloud backups for all with Exaba and Datacentre220
Exaba and Datacentre220 tout a local cloud backup option that can cut storage costs by up to 90% for MSPs and small businesses.

GameStop offers to buy eBay for $56bn
GameStop's chief executive Ryan Cohen told the Wall Street Journal that he sees potential to make eBay a much bigger rival to Amazon.

Charge dropped against man whose partner was fatally shot by police
A charge has been dropped against a man whose partner was shot dead by police in Christchurch.

‘Elephant in the room’: What happened to baby Soul?
One of a handful of New Zealand’s remaining unsolved suspected child homicides is the subject of an inquiry aiming to answer: What happened to baby Soul?

Police appeal for sightings of missing Hamilton boy TJ
Eleven-year-old TJ was last seen at Glenview Community Centre on 29 April.

Watch: Max Verstappen pulls off spectacular 360-degree spin to save race
The world champion avoided a crash with a high-speed pirouette before fighting back from the midfield in Miami.

‘Warring factions’ of rival gangs take fight from boxing match into CBD
Inside a charity boxing event a fight broke out between rival gangs.

Cloudflare warns of AI code review prompt injection
Cloudflare says indirect prompt injection can fool AI code reviewers, with malicious scripts slipping past models when buried in large files and comment noise.

Viasat launches ViaSat-3 F3 to boost Asia-Pacific links
Viasat's ViaSat-3 F3 satellite reaches orbit after SpaceX launch, promising over 1 terabit per second of capacity for Asia-Pacific users.

Santander joins GBP £550 million Ebury funding round
Santander backs Ebury's expansion with GBP £50 million in new funding as Centrebridge leads a GBP £550 million round for the fintech.

Infant milk formula exporter a2 Milk recalls batches in United States
It told the NZX the recall related to a "relatively small" quantity of about 63,078 tins in the US - over 16,000 of which had been sold to consumers.

Kids TV is broken - Can Suzy Cato fix it?
The star's remake of a classic Kiwi show comes up against gaints like Paw Patrol and Bluey.

Why the AI job apocalypse (probably) won’t happen
NYT opinion: For one thing, the macrodata isn’t matching the anecdata, writes Ezra Klein.