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Jamie Mackay's From the Lip - swimming in murky waters

Jamie Mackay wades in to the water quality debate

Rugby damaged my brain: test star

COMMENT: There has been serious attention paid to concussion in sport recently.

Tim Gilbertson: Healthy debate in short supply

Poor Cynthia. Cynthia Bowers has suggested an Environmental Ombudsman for Hawke's Bay. Given the heated debates about water quality

Time to review your calving date?

With calving almost over and mating on the horizon it's time to have a review of one of the most significant decisions you will make

Liam Dann: Are we better off?

COMMENT: New Zealand's economy has grown by 3.6 per cent in the past year, one of the top performers in the OECD - ahead of Australia, the US and UK.

Anendra Singh: Why punish Langman?

Three things cropped up this week as brainstorming material in the intriguing bubble we call sport. No1: Stephen Kearney's appointment

Avocado has star status

With the growing body of scientific and nutritional research that revers them as a 'superfood', avocados have never been more popular.T This

Will Foley: And now the witch hunt begins

With water back to safe levels and the boil notice lifted in Havelock North, the 'witch hunt' begins on who we're going to blame. Every

Furious George - Looking for love or a TV deal?

Dom George wonders if Marcella Bakker is really looking for love or just looking for a TV show...

Jamie Mackay's From the Lip - ruminant ruminations and rural rugby

Jamie Mackay ruminates on the location of those 500 missing cows in this week's From the Lip.

Rick's Beef: Last flick of winter's tail

Over the past fortnight we have started to see the first signs of spring, with pasture growth rates lifting from the mid teens to

Raising girls - it's a matter of opinion

COMMENT: Every time Father's Day rolls around, it makes me think about the huge influence a father can have upon a daughter.

Editorial: Treating water not a choice

When a bug in Havelock North's water supply caused an outbreak of campylobacter weeks ago, we asked the question, how could this happen in NZ?

The Feds say: Is your water up to quality?

Consumers are demanding more traceability when it comes to what we eat but, as illustrated by the incident in Havelock North recently

Dom George tackles the trolls

Dom takes on some ill-informed keyboard warriors in this week's Furious George.

Amelia Geary: We want to be able to swim in our rivers

Clean drinking water is something most of us take for granted in New Zealand - or at least we did until the shocking outbreak of gastric

Ana Apatu: We must treat water as taonga

During the year of 2011 the Healthy Populations team for the Hawke's Bay District Health Board at that time developed their Strategic

High value products need a point of difference

Heading into a third year of low prices, questions have to be asked whether the dairy industry is on a false path. If so, where is the path back to firm ground?