The risk of the kiwi dollar remaining high is the biggest risk to Government forecasts for growth in the nation's farm, forestry and seafood exports, a new Government report says.

From the moment a Rotorua man offered to help a friend steal nine tonnes of native logs, the foolhardy scheme was destined to fail.

Poor Tim Groser. As if the Trade Minister did not have enough to do.

Pan Pac-owned Pacific Wood Products (PWP) in Napier is to close with the loss of 41 jobs.

The economic value of mountainbiking in Rotorua's Whakarewarewa Forest has been estimated at five times its annual timber revenue.

As the Herald reported this week, many national cycleway trails are open. But elsewhere progress is painfully slow. Kirsten Warner visits Hokianga to find out why

The dairy industry has been a star performer for decades, but the time has come for others in the New Zealand family of commodities to share the limelight...

New Zealand's terms of trade - the amount of imports that can be funded by a fixed quantity of exports - fell in the third quarter, driven by falling prices for primary sector exports and a strong kiwi dollar.