Top Māori farm faces costly rebuild after severe storm damage
One of the country's top Māori farms faces a long and costly rebuild to get the property back to where it was before recent storms ripped through it.
OPINION: First on the scene after the recent devastating storms in parts of the North Island were emergency services and selfless members of the public.
Close behind them were the increasingly tone-deaf climate activists – not to lend a hand or support, but to push the same single-issue obsession that they bore people with at parties.
Most decent Kiwis know there’s a time and place for pushing your political agenda and it’s not while volunteers are still clearing roads and digging slip victims out of the rubble.
Unfortunately, there were like-minded climate obsessives in the media and in Parliament doing the same thing.
Your old mate has seen this tone-deaf barracking here and overseas and reckons their lack of common decency and respect is a key reason people are tiring of their ‘the sky is falling’ message.
An Auckland gelato shop and an established New Zealand ice cream maker have both been named Supreme Champions at the NZ Ice Cream & Gelato Awards 2026.
As the cost-of-living crisis continues to put pressure on household grocery budgets, new figures show pork remains one of the most affordable fresh meat options for New Zealand families.
OPINION: In politics, credibility is and should be big. It must surely rank higher than charisma, which is quite trite and superficial. Yet, voters nowadays are often wooed and influenced by how someone looks or talks at a superficial level. TV plays a huge role in this.
Farmers can spend less time on paperwork, thanks to a new data sharing agreement between DairyNZ’s DairyBase and LIC’s MINDA software.
Kaikōura families affected by July's severe storm have found a practical solution to a problem that's kept some children away from regular schooling for weeks: a washed-out section of Inland Kaikōura Road, which has stopped the local school bus from running its usual route.
Rural New Zealand is welcoming the Government’s recent package of rural healthcare initiatives.