Bloody clothes spark biosecurity alert
One Kiwi traveller's decision to store his blood-soaked clothes from an exotic overseas trip landed him in hot-water with airport officials.
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No further fruit flies in Whangarei
No further Queensland fruit flies have been found since the potentially devastating pest was detected in Whangarei this week.
Baby milk firms face China ban
NZ's booming infant formula industry fears Chinese regulatory changes could block smaller operators from doing business in the world's most lucrative and fastest-growing baby milk market.
West Coast men deny starving cows, calves
Two West Coast men have denied starving 150 cows and 30 calves to the point where they have to be euthanised.
Cow drowns in effluent on hellish trip
Two dairy farmers, a stock agent and a trucking company have been prosecuted for putting 25 cows through a hellish trip to the slaughterhouse.
Rot find halts NZ China apple exports
New Zealand has halted all apple exports to China for the rest of the season after rot was found in several batches at the Chinese border.
MPI approves incursion programme after spillage
Ministry for Primary Industries officials have approved an incursion programme in mid-Canterbury following a spillage of one of Europe's most invasive arable weeds - black grass - found in a consignment of imported fescue seed.
Milk scare claims first scalp
The Fonterra contamination scare has claimed its first scalp with Gary Romano, Managing Director NZ Milk Products, resigning with immediate effect.
More countries ban Fonterra products
Former Soviet republics Belarus and Kazakhstan have joined Russia in banning Fonterra dairy products.
Bryce Edwards: The ideological basis of the 'Fonterror' scandal
"Was the Fonterra milk scandal caused by New Zealand being 'hostage to a blinkered devotion to laissez-faire market ideology'?" asks Bryce Edwards.
Editorial: Enough talk - action needed on water issues
Editorial: Two recent events ought to have injected some urgency into the quest for cleaner, fairer and better use of New Zealand's most valuable resource, water.
Passenger's two crates of mangoes
An attempt by an airline passenger to bring two crates of fresh mangoes into NZ could have had dire consequences if the fruit reached our orchards, says border security.
Fertiliser aid dropped after milk tests
An important fertiliser aid has been culled from farmers' chemical shopping lists after it turned up in milk products destined for human consumption.
Hauraki Gulf: Planning for the future
As valuable to marine life as it is prized by humans, the Hauraki Gulf is in decline. Though solutions seem as elusive as the gulf's fish stocks, a groundswell is building for collaboration.