However vehemently rodeo organisers defend their sport, time is just about up...says Peter Jackson

You can rightfully accuse Donald Trump of many things but you couldn't accuse the most powerful man in the world of sitting on his hands.

A recent law change will see New Zealand farmers and growers able to access the latest technologies available on the global market

There are vegans who not only will not touch dead meat but while avoid any products of living things.

Many involved in farming livestock or crops in Hawke's Bay will have memories of a particular drought or droughts - that is a period

To the outsider looking in, horse riders can look a bit unapproachable. I mean, they sit up there on their gleaming steeds, looking

Being a bit of a country girl at heart I love the annual A&P Show. It's a parade of all that's good about the Kiwi country life

Malcolm Lumsden was recently stopped by a lady pronouncing that "I was one of those irresponsible farmers who allowed their cows to 'pee and poo' everywhere resulting in our rivers all being polluted"

It seems implausible, in this age of worldwide connectivity and immediate access to information, that councils, district health boards

As mentioned recently, the so-called collaborative stakeholders' group has recently released their Sea Change report and the Waikato

After a month off, it's back to the grindstone and as usual I have to catch up with what's happened in the world over the past 4

Last week the Northland Age asked why Kaitaia is still waiting for a reliable water supply. It is a valid question, and the Far

As a proud Englishman and a historian, I am often struck by the European desire to give lessons to the rest of the world. I suspect

David Low, the famous anti-appeaser British (though New Zealand born) cartoonist of the 1930s and 1940s, had a character called Colonel

Well, hasn't it been dry this summer? This time last year we were rejoicing in regular dollops of rain and luxuriating in the resulting

COMMENT: Not even a week into Trump's presidency, it's crystal clear that US citizens are now dealing with a fascist regime, writes Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: A strong correlation was found between the state of the country's fish stocks and the quality of its fisheries management, writes Tim Pankhurst.

COMMENT: Bill English should act sooner rather than later if he wants to get a bilateral trade deal with the US on the table, Fran O'Sullivan writes.

OPINION: Medicinal marijuana - what can't it do? Now scientists believe it could help cure irritable bowel syndrome, writes

Rachel Smalley

With much sympathy for farmers battling with increasingly dry conditions, there's no escaping the fact that summer in Hawke's Bay

There has been concern in recent years about the concentration of our seed heritage into the hands of a few large multinational corporations. Very

Slow motion catastrophe: Another massive Hawke's Bay drought is looming. Fifteen years ago climate scientists predicted that severe

About this time of year as we go into the usual drought the neighbours must think we've run out of water and I've started sustaining

Let's stop kidding ourselves: we are in the grip of a water crisis, and any government that fails to recognise and immediately work

I hope readers had a lovely break and enjoyed the wonderful sunshine we've had across New Zealand. I'm happy to be into 2017 which

The continued strength of the Fonterra Global Dairy Auction has given many farmers confidence that there will be an increase in milk

Just before Christmas, the Maori Party took a stand that is hugely important for Hawke's Bay. The party told Environment Minister

The Country host Jamie Mackay shares his list of things to see and do before he shuffles off this mortal coil.

I DON'T have any hard data but it seems that the incidence of stock thefts in the Whanganui and Rangitikei districts is rising. Certainly

How's the white gold flowing in Aotearoa so far in 2017? The dairy payout is back up to around $6 per kilogram of milk solids, but