Council concern over logging damage to Whanganui roads
'This isn't concentrated to just one area, it's network-wide.'
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Chip mill restarted, 120ha forest purchased.
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The Ministry for Primary Industries will soon charge ETS participants a perpetual fee.
'Bloody wrong': Family furious at WorkSafe decision not to prosecute after forestry death
“I just feel like Jason’s life was taken, they removed the body and went back to work.”
New changes to forestry regulations post Cyclone Gabrielle
Regulations have been tightened to reduce damage of downstream communities.
Live: Snow falls as southern flooding mop-up gets underway
Landslides and heavy floodwaters have forced residents to evacuate.
Three injured after car and logging truck crash, SH1 reopens
Police were called to the Waitahanui accident about 12.30pm.
Our forests and our future are entwined
OPINION: We are going to need more forests - both exotics and indigenous -as carbon sinks.
'We are a community in crisis': Gisborne mayor
Tairāwhiti Gisborne has had three states of emergency this year alone.
Anthony Hōete: The Government is finally seeing the forest for the trees
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Letters: Rental properties, nurses' pay, EVs and farm emissions
OPINION: Also letters on Kennedy Pt Marina, intellect, heating, and the harbour bridge.
Tāmata Hauhā reigns supreme at Māori Business Awards
“It’s not profit that drives the awards."
Workers have unacceptably high exposures to carcinogens, study finds
58 per cent of workers in NZ are exposed to at least one cancer-causing agent at work.
“We should’ve been there” Worksafe Investigator on Rawiri case
'We should've been there' says the WorkSafe investigator for deceased forestry worker Jason Rawiri and his family in a recorded conversation.
'Wall of silence': WorkSafe official admits fatality probe stalled by lack of evidence
'I just don’t have the information I need.'
'Wrecking lives': Forestry industry woes taking a toll
Gisborne-based forest contracting business owner pulls the pin on his 23-year-old company.
'Something needs to change now': Forestry contractors at breaking point
“We employ thousands of people, and we cannot keep operating at a loss."
Company fined $180,000 after worker injured by debarking machine
Machine operator suffered serious injuries while operating debarking machine in Northland.
Wallingford Station buyer says sale will have ‘positive impact’ on community
Foreign forestry giant says it wants to "hire locally, buy locally, think locally".
Analysis: Climate disasters hurt some NZ businesses more than others
Weather disaster analysis raises need for needs-based recovery packages, not blanket ones.
PM and ministers tour flood-hit Pan Pac; business could resume as early as August
Ministers saw where the stopbank breached, causing widespread damage to the plant.
Tairāwhiti residents thankful for forestry after cyclone damage
It follows a report into the devastation caused by slash during Cyclone Gabrielle.
The slash report: Call for halt to production forestry in erosion zones
A report says there are just 5-10 years to "turn this environmental disaster around".
Penetaui Kleskovic: Māori landowners need reassurances on forestry
Opinion: 'Growing trees are a critical component for the future of iwi.'
Dive in log prices making harvesting uneconomic
"Prices are much below where they should be to achieve a reasonable return."
Ikea-linked Dutch forestry giants buy 1600ha more land
Ministerial inquiry into destructive slash examining what needs to change.
Marty Verry: Forestry wants our carbon, not your debt
Opinion: Kiwi wood processors compete using world's costliest logs, so what's the answer?
How worried should investors be about a big current account deficit?
New Zealand is a small, open economy with a heavy reliance on the rest of the world.
Sir Paul Adams, Ted Manson: Raised in state houses, billion-dollar sales success
What can we learn from them? What is their new direction these days?
Calls intensify for wider Hawke’s Bay slash inquiry after sacking and resignation
"We still need to understand what caused the damage; how to avoid this happening again."
Land investors look to acquire Mangamahu estate
The cost to acquire the estate would be almost $64 million.
Revealed: How Myanmar ‘blood timber’ found its way to NZ
Whangārei importer admits "it doesn't look good" teak found to come from Myanmar oligarch.
Slash inquiry: Forestry boss says Nash’s industry ties could be ‘impediment’
Stuart Nash says the scale of the debris is "completely unacceptable".
Forest waste ‘critical factor’ in rupture of city's water pipe
Slash and whole trees played a significant role in damaging Gisborne's main water supply.