APN News and Media and Fairfax Media are in "exclusive talks" to fold their local operations - NZME and Fairfax NZ - into a listed NZ media company.

Affco has been ordered to reinstate a worker at its Moerewa plant it sacked for allegedly writing "scab" on a co-worker's locker.

Air NZ has opted to settle a US price-fixing case for $51 million in the latest of a series of cargo cartel actions it has been fighting around the world.

The biggest cruise ship to ever visit New Zealand is coming around Christmas.

Fifty-eight sick and disadvantaged children are taking a scenic flight around New Zealand today.