OPINION: The country's reliance on its rural sector for the export income that sustains our standard of living was re-emphasised in

The voter turnout nationwide has been recognised as being the worst. It has encouraged the comment that we should be using web-based

In April this year farmer confidence reached its lowest level since 2007, particularly for dairy farmers. In July farm prices dropped

We've ratified the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, so what next?

For Labour, it is critical that we have an integrated across government plan to reduce emissions.

As heartening as the election of a revisionist majority to Hawke's Bay regional council may be, I believe the new broom councillors

Watching young animals grow and develop, learn, play and interact is one of life's greatest pleasures. Ensuring the health of an

Recent legal action against Horizons Regional Council smelled like a sordid strategy to upset the apple-cart on the eve of regional

By now most farmers have all or a good portion of their new season lamb crop on the ground. In the North Island favourable lambing

Have you ever been incensed by a badly parked car? Shelley Bridgeman lists her top five parking gripes.

Once again the Hawke's Bay Regional Council is planning to head off to the Courts to enforce their unpopular decisions on a weary

Winston Peters is calling for immigrant employers caught underpaying workers or forcing them to work long hours to be deported.

COMMENT: "Spare me the moral outrage New Zealand", Wayne Perkins reckons Aaron Smith should be left alone after his recent indiscretion.

COMMENT: Environment, drinking water and charges need to be dealt with separately, writes Iain Rabbitts.

The public has sent a message, by re-electing the three incumbent Hastings councillors to Hawke's Bay Regional Council. Based on

I recently returned from a very full-on couple of weeks at Asia Fruit Logistica - a trade show and congress held in Hong Kong, and

What a wet start to the spring we are having. At least it's been warm, grass growth is increasing and our water tables are being replenished. Good

Perverse as it may seem, the Hastings District Council, under scrutiny as possibly culpable in the Havelock North campylobacter outbreak

While dairy farmers are cheered by a milk price forecast that's above break even, Fonterra's recent record profit is bittersweet.

Are we losing our regional towns? Dom George investigates rural depopulation.

One of the current Hawke's Bay regional councillors who has strongly opposed the Ruataniwha Dam and, party to many comments regarding

During the recent election debates here in CHB, it was claimed by some that the Ruataniwha Dam was not an issue for the District Council

The Country host Jamie Mackay tackles his detractors in this week's column, but it's not all bad news.

The public and media reaction to the latest rugby 'scandals' has reached witch hunt proportions. There might well be a case for

The Ruataniwha Dam saga has gone way beyond soap opera territory. Fantasy has long since replaced fact. The Noisy have silenced

Dairy farmers have started huddling in barns and sheds for the first of DairyNZ's post-calving discussion groups. The well-run, informative

COMMENT: Trump has turned international trade into a political minefield with his opposition to agreements like the TPP.

Dom George looks at both sides of the rural/urban story to try and see if everyone can play nice.

The number of dog-bite patients discharged from hospitals around the country has increased 58 per cent over the past 10 years.

COMMENT: It was Real House Roosters of the Beehive kind of stuff, an A-grade brouhaha.