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.

Rain has swept in and saved the summer - and it was perfect.

People are quick to point the finger where drugs are concerned writes Dom George

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.

Kebab-quaffer Dom George can't work out what a vegan would chow down on after a big night.

Last year many parts of the country suffered a very severe facial eczema season from January through to early May. It was so severe

Meat and fibre farmers are facing the most challenging economic conditions for some years. A combination of low returns for sheep

A lot of areas of our life are governed by the clock and the calendar - especially our working lives. As a lawyer I am often asked

JB (Whangarei) has written about shopping smarter: "There are many different market places now other than shops and online. Think

Mohair is the fibre harvested from angora goats, and at more than $20 per kilogram it is significantly more valuable than wool from

I am a sheep and beef farmer and was on the farm on Monday the 13th just gone. When Jamie Mackay of The Country radio show rang

The best questions are seldom asked. Try to answer to this one. A while ago we considered amalgamating all five Hawke's Bay councils. No

On arriving back at work after the summer holidays I was asked by the NFR editorial team to write an overview of the year ahead, focusing

The Oxford Dictionary word of the year for 2016 was "post truth politics". Not strictly a word but, in the same vein, this year

Thanks to our world class land-based industries Hawke's Bay is a prosperous place. Why will it not remain so? But those industries

Summer - with its lower flows and generally better weather - is when farmers often carry out works in and around waterways. These