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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A member of a peer support network talks about the challenges faced by lifeguards, who are at risk of developing ...

Website and daily print publication for the Gisborne region. One of only four independently owned daily newspapers in New ...

Vigilance and preparation are important, say forecasters at the NWS, as wintry weather brings hazardous travel conditions.

More general practices are closing their books, with over a third of the country's GPs turning away new patients last year. A Victoria University of Wellington study has found 36 percent of general ...

Interesting to note that the author of the seventh biggest-selling New Zealand novel in Waitangi Week, longlisted alongside Kataraina for the fiction prize at the Ockham national book awards, is Māori ...

The only love story in the bestseller chart on Valentine’s Day. 5 Kāwai: For Such a Time as This (Kāwai 1) by Monty Soutar (David Bateman, $39.99) 7 All That We Know by Shilo Kino (Hachette, $37.99) ...

A piece of shearing history may have been created at the remote Ohura A&P show on Saturday when women won three of the four shearing finals.