Category Archives: Financial

In the end, it was a rout. After a 12-year, multimillion-dollar battle that began with a disagreement over newsroom budgets, former Radio New Zealand journalist Lynne Snowdon conclusively lost her Employment Court case last week.

TVNZ spent almost quarter of a million dollars to settle a doubling in personal grievance cases in the past financial year. The payments cover employment action taken by 10 staff and total $246,000 – up $182,150 on 2012, during which there were four settled personal grievances.

Of all the victims of western sanctions, one of the most unlikely is singer Miley Cyrus.

A pair of Thames teens have turned to social media to launch a $500,000 fundraising appeal aimed at saving the Parachute Christian music festival.

It is 37 years since Australian Robyn Davidson headed out from Alice Springs with a team of three adult camels and a calf, her black dog, a compass her father had given her and a lot of tins of lentils, determined to walk 2700 kilometres across the desert to the Pacific Ocean.

The Parachute music festival has been cancelled – for good.

Porsche carrying Fast & Furious star Paul Walker was travelling approximately 145kmh when it lost control on a suburban Los Angeles street and crashed, killing the actor and his friend, according to an investigation by law enforcement agencies into the November accident. The sports car slammed into a light pole which had a speed limit sign of 45 mph (72kmh), killing Walker and Roger Rodas in a fiery wreck

Rolling Stones fans holding tickets to the postponed concert of the band in Auckland will be able to change flights. In a statement on social media today, gig organisers Frontier Touring said all Australasian tour dates had been postponed after the death of designer L’Wren Scott, the girlfriend of Stones frontman Mick Jagger