Organisers of the 63rd Golden Shears are looking at ways of coping with big entries for some grades at the 2025 event in Masterton from February 27 to March 1. By Wednesday afternoon, 413 entries had ...

Southland has other hopes in Nathan Stratford, whose 88 wins in 28 seasons of Open shearing don’t include the Golden Shears title, despite shearing in the final 12 times, surprise 2024 runner-up Casey ...

Horses and their riders are set to tackle the 3 Ranges Cowboy Challenge Club’s challenge in Dannevirke this weekend testing ...

Muggy conditions finally come to an end as rain and fresh southwesterlies spread from the south. The rain is expected to ease off towards the end of the weekend with dry sunnier skies increasing.

When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

New University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since the start of the Ice Age, offering clues into future ...

On the cusp of Pinot Noir New Zealand 2025, to be held in Christchurch Ōtautahi 11-13 February, Emma Jenkins MW reflects on the ...

The route to vintage seldom runs smooth, with the vagaries of nature and market dictating every turn. With a resplendent flowering talled by a ...

The ExportNZ ASB Central Region Export Awards will return this year with an expanded format, building off the success of last year’s sold-out ExportNZ ASB Wellington Export Awards. This ...

Two years ago Cyclone Gabrielle struck off the East Coast of the North Island, devastating part of Tairāwhiti, Hawke's Bay ...

New Zealand’s 2025 kiwifruit harvest has begun with the first fruit picked just outside Edgecumbe in the Bay of Plenty, ...

This is according to new data from Worldline NZ through tracking spending across core retail merchants. Total payments hit ...