The government wants savings of at least $69 million a year from its spend on recruitment agencies by cracking down on the number of firms its uses.

CEOs to be top casualties from new super agency.

A review of the Ministry of Economic Development that recommends it take a lead role in driving New Zealand’s growth stepped around areas where the reviewers had a conflict of interest, including the rollout of superfast broadband.

The cause of last month's catastrophic outage has been identified. The MED will attempt to apply a fix over the weekend.

Telecom, MED fill-in more details of split - which may raise some eyebrows. Telecom shares hit a fresh high.