10:17am Wed 16 Nov, 2016
Two popular Bay rural events, the BOP Young Fruit Grower competition and the Te Puke A&P Show, are joining forces to stage an action-filled event on Saturday, February... Read More
05:57pm Tue 15 Nov, 2016
Amy Dibley of Physio Direct Ltd has been named the supreme winner of the annual Rural Women New Zealand Enterprising Rural Women Awards. Amy is from Rotorua and... Read More
10:44am Tue 15 Nov, 2016
Ravensdown, the farmer-owned fertiliser co-operative, is the new sponsor for the NZ Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators prestigious Agricultural... Read More
10:07am Thu 10 Nov, 2016
A slaughterman who received home detention over the abuse of bobby calves has had his sentence replaced with a two year prison term following an appeal by the Ministry... Read More
04:12pm Mon 07 Nov, 2016
Just because you've worked on a farm for decades, carrying out routine job you've done a thousand times before - accidents happen and sometimes they're fatal. Last... Read More
09:32am Sun 06 Nov, 2016
A 12 year old girl suffering a medical condition requiring immediate hospital care was flown from Te Kaha to Whakatane Hospital last night. The Trustpower TECT... Read More
05:05pm Fri 04 Nov, 2016
UPDATED: 5.25PM: Te Puna Road will be closed off to traffic while firefighters deal with a shelterbelt fire in Te Puna this evening. Northern Fire Communications... Read More
04:46pm Thu 03 Nov, 2016
Another 40 million cartons of whipping cream will soon be rolling down the conveyors at Fonterra's state-of-the-art Waitoa UHT facility every year, as the co-operative... Read More
07:10am Thu 03 Nov, 2016
A Whangamata farmer is in Tauranga Hospital with suspected back injuries after falling two metres from a milking shed. The Tauranga-based Trustpower TECT Rescue... Read More
06:44am Mon 31 Oct, 2016
Five-year-old Keaton Rose and brothers Mitch, 6, and Baxter, 8, will be run, run, running around Omokoroa next weekend to drum up funds for their community's plan... Read More
03:41pm Sun 30 Oct, 2016
A person or people on a boat are thought to have started the fire that saw fire fighters called to Rat Island in Tauranga harbor this afternoon. Smoke from the... Read More
10:26am Sat 29 Oct, 2016
The Thames-Coromandel District is poised to take advantage of the just-announced next phase of the Government's Rural Broadband Initiative. The second phase of... Read More