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New Zealand Business News API

Get the live top business headlines from New Zealand with our JSON API.

Get API key for the New Zealand Business News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from New Zealand.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=nz&category=business&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 7674,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c45a82b99d08a294b72c8f82597e6731",
            "title": "Hawke’s Bay brewers call for beer excise tax reduction to bring people back to pubs",
            "description": "Hawke’s Bay brewers and hospitality organisations are calling for the excise tax the Government collects on pints of beer to be reduced in a bid to bring...",
            "content": "Some of that shift can be attributed to the cost of a pint, they said.\nDraught beer excise tax increased more than 13% over the past three years – from $33.241 per litre of alcohol on July 1, 2022 to $37.836 per litre of alcohol on July 1, 2025 and b... [3195 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/hawkes-bay-brewers-call-for-beer-excise-tax-reduction-to-bring-people-back-to-pubs/ZNUUUUWXM5AW3BQFBGDM5BVAU4/",
            "image": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/PSXSO3TR3VFH3DXPQYXBP3X6QU.jpg?auth=dcb4bb9c49f3f11413fd15c65f31ca2f1b4dca8faec66a926f01814be3fd7be6&width=1200&height=675&quality=70&focal=961%2C437&smart=false",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-19T02:43:26Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a086bc2011f6ea09f34f87b9ef0a588b",
                "name": "NZ Herald",
                "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cf53d7170eee36abbd8940fec78b4d53",
            "title": "GDP increase ‘disappointing’ as Government spending boosts growth and households reluctant to spend",
            "description": "Economic activity rose 0.2% in the December 2025 quarter, which was at the lower end of expectations. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) had forecast...",
            "content": "It jumped 2.5% over the quarter for its biggest lift since December 2021.\n“The fact that central government spending and an increase in inventory levels made the biggest positive contributions to growth highlights the economy’s static nature,” he sai... [4352 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/gdp-growth-disappointing-as-government-spending-boosts-growth/premium/44OJCTM7GVEH7O7MN4ZZYL6JGU/",
            "image": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/2LGQPSTXVNFF7F2SKSJGAYLTXE.jpg?auth=434abc13cac4cc3574b1d44f0dbbb1446bc52c9a7876670102285828aa940523&width=1200&height=675&quality=70&smart=true",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-19T02:02:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a086bc2011f6ea09f34f87b9ef0a588b",
                "name": "NZ Herald",
                "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ee570ab9ac52052083dc4fb698fa3507",
            "title": "We need to learn how to make liveable cities - Eric Crampton",
            "description": "Too many of the world’s urban planners grew up playing the city-planning game SimCity . You may have played it too. It’s fun, but it’s a terrible guide to...",
            "content": "SimCity presents a fairly static vision of cities and a strongly dirigiste view of the urban planner’s role. Nothing happens until the planner directs it. And land values depend on the things the planner provides, rather than the value the city’s res... [3974 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/we-need-to-learn-how-to-make-liveable-cities-eric-crampton/premium/UG6LFZSJX5FK3HQHAKEESGYZLM/",
            "image": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/MIPIOEJNFFEUHPROTXOKJBFDEY.jpg?auth=4a23fafcc70ba1e2e2eefe45aa29f47a63a5e5874762af71e65432665cff26cb&width=1200&height=675&quality=70&focal=940%2C764&smart=false",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-19T01:58:49Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a086bc2011f6ea09f34f87b9ef0a588b",
                "name": "NZ Herald",
                "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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