OPINION: The principle that nobody owns our water hasn't stopped water bottling companies from gaining ownership for free.

The aim of the rural games is to give back something of our legacy to the next generation.

As you crack that egg into the pan to spit away with the bacon, spare a thought for the hen who produced it and the porker who grew

It's all shearing and superannuation in this week's From the Lip.

Contrary to claims, about 80 per cent of NZ's waterways have stable or improving water quality.

Baby boomer bashing won't solve the problems, says Liam Dann.

Craig Cooper is extraordinarily badly qualified to write about fishing but has caught the same 73cm kingfish twice in two weeks. Or so he thinks.

I'm shooting backwards over rocks while clutching a thin rope in a PVC raft. A white water symphony fills my ears as our guide's voice

Nick Smith's myth about making waterways "swimmable" is turning out to be a bigger slice of preposterousness than even I at first

The latest Massey student vet calendar Barely There causes Dom to reminisce about his love of "nudie calendars".

Dry conditions and strong south-westerly winds have made this summer a real challenge for farmers.

Well done, Rex and the Gang of Four. Our intrepid regional council has vowed to relocate and re-educate everyone who disagrees with

Every year in March and April, councils around the country issue their draft annual plans for consultation. Don't dismiss them as

Seven million trays of avocados were grown, harvested, packed, exported and marketed this season.

Concern and pessimism surrounding the recently released Maxim Institute report on the future of New Zealand's regions has raised some

COMMENT: Already visitors are reporting to the folks back home that Aotearoa is not all it's cracked up to be.

COMMENT: Every week we read in the paper that Greenpeace, the Greens, Fish and Game or Massey's Mike Joy are slagging farmers over water quality, writes Alan Emerson.

Thanks to lobbying by Federated Farmers, the Government has announced relief for quake-hit farmers.

COMMENT: Donald Trump evidently has a primitive view of international commerce.

Last Thursday, Environment Minister Nick Smith released a consultation document, Clean Water, setting out proposals for improving

We all want to be able to swim in our local rivers when the weather is right, and New Zealand is the perfect place with so many on offer.

COMMENT: Moral implications seem a bridge too far in decisions on management of key resource, opines Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: The $80,000 bill for a Trump Inauguration Gala was money well spent.

Last week my sister and I had a good chat about her plans to buy a house. But we eventually came to the real reason for her call

Jamie Mackay reflects on politicians he has known and interviewed over his radio career. Even the ones who ignore him...

Deputy Mayor Tania McInnes touched a nerve when she suggested last week that perhaps the Far North should look for a new name.

Discussion around the state of water quality in New Zealand is not short of an opinion or two. Yet when it comes to the science, we're

We cannot keep growing our farming impacts indefinitely, writes John Hart.

In "clean, green New Zealand" just 72 per cent of rivers, streams and lakes are considered safe for swimming and it will remain that way for a while.

The Bay people and their environment have been through so much in the past few years, from Wairoa down to Waipawa. The disastrous