Trust seeks water money
By John Keast
A trust proposed to take over from Ashburton's Managed Aquifer Recharge Governance Group will seek funding from the Provincial Growth Fund to...
Big gear comes out for challenge
By John Keast
The air shakes when the tractor starts.
It is the effect of 520 horsepower.
Peter Butterick is in the driver's seat.
The Wakanui farmer is...
A rocky road, but solution sought
The stream bed is building up with rubble from a landslip - and when the stream rises, it can cut off residents on the...
Shear and share alike
Cancer Support Group, Breast Cancer Foundation NZ and Prostate Cancer Foundation NZ took home a share of $90,000, raised through the Shear for Life...
Alarm bells at Ashburton lakes
By Toni Williams
Results of a Department of Conservation (DOC) restoration and conservation project on the Ashburton Lakes are ringing alarm bells for the Ashburton...
Man fined in fish officer scam
A Kaikoura man has been fined for pretending to be a Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) fishery officer and extorting money from tourists who...
Rogainers hit the hills
More than 200 athletes took to the hills behind Woodbury in South Canterbury on Sunday for the sixth Geraldine Rogaine Autumn Muster....
Ancient grain nurtured in Mid Canty soils
By Toni Williams
Methven grower Andrew Currie among the quinoa trial plants due for harvest in May.
The quinoa, still two months from harvest, is starting...
Mavis takes lead role in WI
By Toni Williams
For five decades Lowcliffe woman Mavis Wilkins has been a member of the Women's Institute (WI).
It's given her life skills, an understanding...
Products sent to Tasman district to help fire displaced animals
Mid Canterbury animal lovers have teamed up with their North Canterbury colleagues to pitch in and help animals displaced by the Tasman district fires.
A...
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