There has been a shortage of rural GPs throughout the country and more medical students from rural areas willing to return to their local communities are needed to help address the issue. Read...

Police are accusing Federated Farmers of scaremongering over a proposed restructure in rural Canterbury. Read...

Police plan to cut rural officers, boosting resources in central areas. Read...

The Royal New Zealand College of GPs survey of more than 1300 doctors showed a significant numbers are about to leave the workforce. Read...

Firefighters remain at a rural property south of Auckland, after a large house fire overnight. Read...

Too many are caring for loved ones with dementia - or mate wareware - without support, diagnosis or the information they need, according to two leading brain researchers. Read...

Medical students who train rurally are six times more likely to work as a rural doctor, says the Rural Health Network. Read...

Two people are seriously injured after getting trapped inside their car following a crash in rural Eastern Bay of Plenty. Read...

As a second weather bomb lashed the Tasman region, Cosmo Kentish-Barnes was on the ground with rural residents staring down the barrel of another deluge. Read...

Farm conversions to exotic forests will be capped at 15,000ha annually. Read...