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News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

A food safety expert says it's inexcusable "The Collective" yoghurt company, Epicurean Dairy, covered up positive tests for listeria.

The company and two directors have been fined $483,000, for… Read more Audio

Voters will have their say on legalising recreational cannabis, and - potentially - voluntary euthanasia in 2020.

A special team within the Justice Ministry has been set up to make sure any campaigns… Read more Audio

Silver Ferns captain Laura Langman has been named player of the year after receiving the Dame Lois Muir Supreme Award at last night's Awards evening in Auckland Audio

Major questions about the checks done on New Zealand's building products. An inquiry finds London's fire brigade contributed to deaths in the Grenfell Tower disaster. Measles is being blamed for three… Read more Audio

Material salvaged from a City Rail Link construction site will be shipped to Tonga next month where it will be re-used to help rebuild cyclone-battered communities.

Contents of two Tonga-bound… Read more Audio

Visitors to Lake Waikaremoana are being urged to look after the land as if it were their closest and dearest friend's home.

That's after the iwi who take care of the area discovered illegal… Read more Audio

A senior member of Labour's ruling council has put his name forward to be president, pledging to unite the party and learn from its mishandling of sexual assault complaints.

Labour's Maori Senior… Read more Audio

Sonny Bill Williams maybe considering another code swap... this time BACK to rugby league... The 34-year-old midfielder is reportedly weighing up the richest contract in the history of either code… Read more Audio

Pharmacists will soon be able to give MMR vaccinations in the latest step in the government's efforts to to stop the measles outbreak.

Trained vaccinators will be able immunise people aged over 16 in… Read more Audio