SkyCity Entertainment Group’s pledge to maintain dividends at higher levels even as it spends on major developments may see the listed casino company pay out almost all of its second half profit to investors. SkyCity, which has four casinos in New Zealand and two in Australia, increased its dividend policy last year to annual payments of not less than 20 …

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of government submissions that search warrants executed during the high-profile arrest of Mega founder Kim Dotcom in January 2012 were valid, though it agreed that the police shouldn’t have let cloned information leave the country. Justices Ellen France, Tony Randerson and Douglas White granted the Crown’s appeal against an order declaring the …

The Ministry for Primary Industries has raised its forecasts for exports of dairy products, meat and forestry, citing growing demand and limited supplies of milk, lower US and European beef production and high prices for logs. The ministry raised its forecast for total primary sector exports in the year ending June 30 by 15.6 percent compared to its estimates last …