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  • Could merging help councils trim rate rises?

    News
    New Zealand Local Democracy Reporting
    26 Aug 2024
    Porirua Mayor Anita Baker said the council has "stuck to its knitting" despite a 17.5 percent rates increase. Photo: RNZ/Dom Thomas. [via LDR single use only]

    With an average rates rise of 16 percent it's clear increases of that scale can't be absorbed long-term.

    Merging councils pushed as one way to trim rate rises
  • Morning Rural News for 26 August 2024

    Audio
    food farming
    26 Aug 2024

    News from the rural farming sector. Audio

  • 'Death is everywhere in the country. I was a townie' - poet David Merritt's 'rural Gothic' life

    News
    New Zealand music
    24 Aug 2024
    David Merrit

    The poet's job description is "keep your eyes open, your heart alert and allow a little bit of serendipity in," David Merritt says. Video, Audio

    The Mixtape: David Merritt's life in poetry
  • The Mixtape: David Merritt's life in poetry

    Audio
    media author interview
    24 Aug 2024
    Poet David Merritt

    The poet's job description is "keep your eyes open, your heart alert and allow a little bit of serendipity in," David Merritt says. Video, Audio

    This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions.

  • All Australian tomato imports temporarily suspended

    News
    New Zealand Business
    23 Aug 2024
    Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus

    The ban on imports to New Zealand will be reviewed in seven days. Audio

    All Australian tomato imports temporarily suspended
  • Midday Rural News for 23 August 2024

    Audio
    food farming
    23 Aug 2024

    News from the rural farming sector. Audio

  • Farming lobby says pine will help environment, but kill jobs, schools

    News
    Business Country
    23 Aug 2024
    60 year old pine tree being felled in Manulife forest block near Tokoroa.

    Pine trees are an important part of the economy, but planting whole farms with pine trees could have flow-on impacts in regional towns, Federated Farmers says.

    Farming lobby says pine will help environment, but kill jobs, schools
  • Replacing farms with pine forests will come at a cost: Meat and Wool NZ

    Audio
    farming policy
    23 Aug 2024

    Federated farmers are calling a recent report from the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge a 'horror story for New Zealand farmer's and rural communities'. Meat and wool chair Toby Williams… Audio

  • Morning Rural News for 23 August 2024

    Audio
    food farming
    23 Aug 2024

    News from the rural farming sector. Audio

  • Call for ban on all tomatoes from Australia

    News
    New Zealand Country
    22 Aug 2024
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    Tomatoes NZ is calling for a ban on all tomatoes from Australia, to stop a virus entering the country and decimating Aotearoa's crops. Audio

    'Extremely infectious' tomato virus raises fears for NZ growers
  • The century-old legacy of Indian participation in NZ's dairy industry

    News
    IndoNZ IndoNZ Featured Stories
    22 Aug 2024
    Kiwi Indians have played a leading role in making Waikato the country’s dairy production powerhouse since the 1960s.

    Kiwi Indians have played a leading role in making Waikato the country's dairy production powerhouse since the 1960s.

    Tracing the century-old legacy of Indian participation in New Zealand’s dairy industry
  • Midday Rural News for 22 August 2024

    Audio
    food farming
    22 Aug 2024

    News from the rural farming sector. Audio

  • Technology: Starlink's rural impact, dating apps dive, Snoo sub fury

    Audio
    technology
    22 Aug 2024
    woman looks at online dating profile

    Technology commentator Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about the latest Telecommunications Monitoring Report and the many gaps between urban and rural areas.  Audio

  • Watch live: Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi take stage at the US Democratic convention

    News
    World world politics
    22 Aug 2024
    US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz wave to supporters as they depart after speaking during a campaign rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, August 7, 2024.  (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP)

    Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz prepared for a high-profile speech at his party's convention while Robert F Kennedy appeared to be weighing an endorsement of Trump. Video

    Watch live: Tim Walz, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi take stage at the US Democratic convention
  • Luxon's speech on waste rubs councils the wrong way

    News
    Politics local council
    22 Aug 2024
    Christopher Luxon makes his first address to the China Business Summit as New Zealand’s prime minister on 20 May, 2024.

    Councillors, mayors and officials could be heard groaning as the prime minister spoke. Audio

    PM Christopher Luxon's speech on waste rubs councils the wrong way
  • Research shows benefits of converting farms to forestry

    Audio
    rural
    22 Aug 2024

    New research shows New Zealand could solve water quality problems and still make a profit from land by converting most sheep and beef land to pine trees. Lead author Bill Kaye-Blake spoke to Ingrid… Audio

  • Morning Rural News for 22 August 2024

    Audio
    food farming
    22 Aug 2024

    News from the rural farming sector. Audio

  • Here's where the economic downturn has hit hardest

    News
    Business money
    22 Aug 2024
    View of the Pacific Coast Highway road in Gisborne.

    The economic crunch is deepening, but it hasn't been felt evenly, data from Infometrics shows.

    Here's where the economic downturn has hit hardest
  • What else can we learn from wastewater?

    Audio
    science health
    22 Aug 2024
    Two women in white lab coats and lab goggles stand in a lab next to a large machine with about a dozen glass bottles on top of it. The glass bottles are half-filled with clear liquid and have tubes running from them into the machine.

    Wastewater testing became part of our daily lives during the Covid-19 pandemic, but what else can it tell us about what's happening in our communities? From looking for illicit drugs, to monitoring… Audio

  • What else can we learn from wastewater?

    News
    Our Changing World science
    22 Aug 2024
    Two women in white lab coats and lab goggles stand in a lab next to a large machine with about a dozen glass bottles on top of it. The glass bottles are half-filled with clear liquid and have tubes running from them into the machine.

    Wastewater testing became part of our daily lives during the Covid-19 pandemic, but what else can it tell us about what's happening in our communities? From looking for illicit drugs, to monitoring…

    Audio

    What else can we learn from wastewater?
  • Oral Questions for Wednesday 21 August 2024

    Audio 21 Aug 2024

    Questions to Ministers Rt Hon CHRIS HIPKINS to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his Government's statements and actions? TIM van de MOLEN to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has… Audio

  • Midday Rural News for 21 August 2024

    Audio
    food farming
    21 Aug 2024

    News from the rural farming sector. Audio

  • Shortages in vet sector hitting rural areas the hardest

    News
    New Zealand Country
    21 Aug 2024
    Illustration of a female vet holding a grateful cat at an after-hours clinic.

    A new study shows shortages across the veterinary sector are leading to some leaving the industry due to high workload, stress and burnout - especially in rural New Zealand.

    Shortages in vet sector hitting rural areas the hardest
  • Teen survives being hit by two cars, breaks 'every bone in his body'

    News
    New Zealand
    21 Aug 2024
    Raphael Patuwai

    Raphael Patuwai was walking home in the middle of the night when he was hit - twice.

    Whakatāne teenager hit by two cars breaks ‘every bone in his body’
  • Man dies after pulling gun on police, fleeing in car near Rotorua

    News
    New Zealand
    21 Aug 2024
    A police car

    Police were called to the rural area after reports of gunshots about 9pm.

    Man dies after fleeing police at Putāruru
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