Rural

We return now to Lake Ohau Village in the Mackenzie Basin where many residents' homes were destroyed in Sunday's wildfire. Many spoke about the wilding pines, also known as wilding conifers, which… Audio

Farmers fear there will be more fires in future like the one near Lake Ohau because Department of Conservation land gets overgrown with vegetation, providing a fire with plenty of fuel to burn.

Eric… Audio

Around 90 people were forced to sleep away from their homes last night after the fires at Lake Ohau in Canterbury that forced them out.

Among them was B&B owner Hugh Spiers, whose business has been… Audio

As Canterbury battled fires, a day of constant rain left parts of Southland flooded yesterday.

At one point the region's roads were so swamped that contractors were running out of signs to mark… Audio

Air and ground crews continue to fight a huge wildfire in Canterbury's Mackenzie Country.

The fire service says more than 1600 hectares have been burnt.

Four crews have spent the night trying to… Audio

The Minister of Civil Defence Peeni Henare landed in the fire-devastated Mackenzie District on Sunday evening.

He's been talking to the District Mayors and the Fire Service about the damage to the… Audio

A devastating fire has broken out at the South Island's Lake Ohau.

The wildfire roared through Lake Ohau village early yesterday morning, spreading across more then 1600 hectares of conservation… Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

The summer fruit industry has launched a new campaign targeting university students, as it desperately tries to lure in workers for this season's harvest. With the border closed to RSE workers from… Audio

The global pandemic has touched even the lives of people in remote Endeavour Inlet in the Marlborough Sounds.  Video, Audio, Gallery

Maria Lupton has New Zealand's only leech farm, with tens of thousands of the parasites in tanks on her Waikato property. She even takes them on holiday so she can respond quickly if a hospital needs… Audio

Summerfruit NZ is launching a campaign to attract tertiary students to Central Otago over summer to pick fruit. Audio

Northland's farmers are reluctant to buy in stock and the sheep farmers in the southern South Island seem to have made it through this week's weather bomb with fewer than expected lamb deaths. Find… Audio

Asparagus growers are celebrating their good luck in mopping up the available pool of RSE workers ahead of rival produce that ripens later in the year.

Eric Frykberg has te pūrongo taiwhenua. Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio