If the uncertainty around Brexit last year wasn't enough, we now enter the unknown with United States President Trump now carrying

Nearing the end of one of our biggest seasons to date, we can reflect on a season that was both challenging and exciting at the same

Since becoming your representative on the Northland Regional Council last October I have been on a mission to understand the vast

The reaction of many Northlanders to the news that our region is to be promoted in Melbourne to attract tourists here was no doubt

Whether you're the President of the United States or a rodeo king - Twitter is a dark and dangerous place writes Dominic George

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

It's back to school this week for my three children and around the country 765,000 students are returning to the classroom. This

It didn't take an Einstein to get who Bill English was really talking about at his Chinese New Year dinner speech, Fran O'Sullivan writes.

We are only a few weeks into 2017 but already it seems the phrase of the year might very well be the "F" one. Fake news. The phrase

A recent law change will see New Zealand farmers and growers able to access the latest technologies available on the global market

There are vegans who not only will not touch dead meat but while avoid any products of living things.

Many involved in farming livestock or crops in Hawke's Bay will have memories of a particular drought or droughts - that is a period

To the outsider looking in, horse riders can look a bit unapproachable. I mean, they sit up there on their gleaming steeds, looking

Being a bit of a country girl at heart I love the annual A&P Show. It's a parade of all that's good about the Kiwi country life

Malcolm Lumsden was recently stopped by a lady pronouncing that "I was one of those irresponsible farmers who allowed their cows to 'pee and poo' everywhere resulting in our rivers all being polluted"

It seems implausible, in this age of worldwide connectivity and immediate access to information, that councils, district health boards

COMMENT: Is the end of the Trans-Pacific Partnership the death of open economies or just a setback, Brian Fallow writes.

COMMENT: NZ First wants public money to pay for televising significant games so they can be seen by everyone, says Winston Peters.

Last week the Northland Age asked why Kaitaia is still waiting for a reliable water supply. It is a valid question, and the Far

As a proud Englishman and a historian, I am often struck by the European desire to give lessons to the rest of the world. I suspect

David Low, the famous anti-appeaser British (though New Zealand born) cartoonist of the 1930s and 1940s, had a character called Colonel

Well, hasn't it been dry this summer? This time last year we were rejoicing in regular dollops of rain and luxuriating in the resulting

COMMENT: Not even a week into Trump's presidency, it's crystal clear that US citizens are now dealing with a fascist regime, writes Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: A strong correlation was found between the state of the country's fish stocks and the quality of its fisheries management, writes Tim Pankhurst.

COMMENT: Bill English should act sooner rather than later if he wants to get a bilateral trade deal with the US on the table, Fran O'Sullivan writes.

The mainstream media did themselves no favours with their handling of the 'he said, she said' row between the 'Mad Butcher,' Sir Peter

The man behind Fraser Farm Finance says 'Brexit and Trumpet, like it or lump it' and he offers his State of the Nation for NZ farming in 2017.

OPINION: Medicinal marijuana - what can't it do? Now scientists believe it could help cure irritable bowel syndrome, writes

Rachel Smalley

With much sympathy for farmers battling with increasingly dry conditions, there's no escaping the fact that summer in Hawke's Bay

There has been concern in recent years about the concentration of our seed heritage into the hands of a few large multinational corporations. Very