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• Source:  1 NEWS ASB says it hopes to boost New Zealand’s housing supply by offering a “market-leading” 1.79 per cent floating interest rate for people building a new home from scratch or buying a home and land package.  Building (file photo). Source: Seven Sharp The offer, which comes into effect today, is available for people who will be living in the house they build and investors who are buying a finished new build or bu...

Massey University's Paul Spoonley says fertility rates in New Zealand have been dropping since 2014.

Did RuPaul actually come to New Zealand? A Spinoff investigation Investigation Social media is alight with a bizarre rumour that RuPaul Charles never came to New Zealand to film the local version of his reality show, Drag Race Down Under.  Nothing has excited New Zealand social media this year as much as the news that RuPaul had landed in the country to film the first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under. Accompanied by his drag bestie Michelle Visage, RuPaul was spotted everywhere from Papakura to Waiheke Island.  Except, they weren’t. Only Visage was papped by eagle-eyed Drag Race ...

This story first appeared on capsulenz.com When you think of Hilary Barry, what comes to mind? Giggles? News cleave? Clapbacks against Karens and triumphs over social media trolls? Well to be fair she’s all of those things – not to mention a damn fine broadcaster and journalist – but in the years since the lovingly dubbed “Hilz Baz” waka jumped from Mediaworks to TVNZ, New Zealand has had the chance to see just who the self-proclaimed ‘lippy suburban mother of two’ truly is: joy, personified. (Although, squeaks of it did come out from time to time on the 6pm news – “Hilar...

The real world is a complex place and nothing beats experience, The House's Phil Smith writes.