Suspicion about the vote count is pervasive even in small rural communities, where volunteers are preparing for potential violence. Read...

An Otago principal says it `doesn`t feel like common sense prevails` when it comes to cuts to rural school bus services. Read...

Rural groups are raising the alarm over the review and cancellation of school bus routes. Read...

The new education programme helping empower the next generation of wahine in agriculture recently launched across the wider Wellington and Horowhenua region targeting girls from urban backgrounds. Read...

Farmers are being told they need to have open and honest conversations with their family about the issue of succession. Read...

Wairarapa police are intensifying their efforts to target poachers and have asked rural people to “break the silence”. Read...

Federated Farmers wants the Government to action a mental health strategy created by the primary sector. Read...

Thriving Southland has a new podcast, Catchment Convos, that covers all things catchment groups and offers farming tips and tricks. Read...

Drivers are needed to get the new Manawatu Rural Bus on the road. Read...

When major employers close businesses, small towns face bleak consequences. Read...