A weekend in the life of Dom George: fantastic All Blacks, a delectable Tuatara brew, and atrocious social "medea" spelling.

Have you ever been incensed by a badly parked car? Shelley Bridgeman lists her top five parking gripes.

Once again the Hawke's Bay Regional Council is planning to head off to the Courts to enforce their unpopular decisions on a weary

Winston Peters is calling for immigrant employers caught underpaying workers or forcing them to work long hours to be deported.

COMMENT: "Spare me the moral outrage New Zealand", Wayne Perkins reckons Aaron Smith should be left alone after his recent indiscretion.

COMMENT: Environment, drinking water and charges need to be dealt with separately, writes Iain Rabbitts.

The public has sent a message, by re-electing the three incumbent Hastings councillors to Hawke's Bay Regional Council. Based on

I recently returned from a very full-on couple of weeks at Asia Fruit Logistica - a trade show and congress held in Hong Kong, and

What a wet start to the spring we are having. At least it's been warm, grass growth is increasing and our water tables are being replenished. Good

Whangarei District councillors recently voted unanimously to protect our community and local economy from the risks of outdoor uses

While dairy farmers are cheered by a milk price forecast that's above break even, Fonterra's recent record profit is bittersweet.

Are we losing our regional towns? Dom George investigates rural depopulation.

One of the current Hawke's Bay regional councillors who has strongly opposed the Ruataniwha Dam and, party to many comments regarding

During the recent election debates here in CHB, it was claimed by some that the Ruataniwha Dam was not an issue for the District Council

The Country host Jamie Mackay tackles his detractors in this week's column, but it's not all bad news.

The public and media reaction to the latest rugby 'scandals' has reached witch hunt proportions. There might well be a case for

The Ruataniwha Dam saga has gone way beyond soap opera territory. Fantasy has long since replaced fact. The Noisy have silenced

Dairy farmers have started huddling in barns and sheds for the first of DairyNZ's post-calving discussion groups. The well-run, informative

The number of dog-bite patients discharged from hospitals around the country has increased 58 per cent over the past 10 years.

COMMENT: It was Real House Roosters of the Beehive kind of stuff, an A-grade brouhaha.

The host of The Country, Jamie MacKay, promoted it as "The Great Water Quality Debate". He introduced the two protagonists using political

The Country's resident cynic investigates the murky world of social-media one-upmanship.

COMMENT: If the success of the rat-kill on Rakitu Island is anything to go by, NZ is unlikely to be clear of pests by 2050.

Jamie Mackay wades in to the water quality debate

COMMENT: There has been serious attention paid to concussion in sport recently.

Poor Cynthia. Cynthia Bowers has suggested an Environmental Ombudsman for Hawke's Bay. Given the heated debates about water quality

With calving almost over and mating on the horizon it's time to have a review of one of the most significant decisions you will make

COMMENT: New Zealand's economy has grown by 3.6 per cent in the past year, one of the top performers in the OECD - ahead of Australia, the US and UK.

Three things cropped up this week as brainstorming material in the intriguing bubble we call sport. No1: Stephen Kearney's appointment

With the growing body of scientific and nutritional research that revers them as a 'superfood', avocados have never been more popular.T This