Rural

The Northland Regional Council is suggesting introducing new insects to fight the spread of wild ginger, which is threatening native plants.

Woolworths in Australia is importing avocados from New Zealand earlier than usual and this is creating a glut in the market, Avocados Australia says.

Police have searched an Ashburton property in relation to the reported theft of 500 cows in the area, and say inquiries are continuing.

Taranaki and the West Coast of the South Island are among areas likely to be worst hit by a shortage of rural doctors, according to a GP organisation.

Dave Te Kapa's shearing gang is pre-lamb shearing 1000 ewes a day at Snowdon Station in the Canterbury high country. Snowdon's owners, Roy Veronese and Annabel Tripp operate a Perendale stud alongside…

Setting up an artisan bake house on a small rural property with a babbling brook has been a dream of Maurice Lees' for a decade or more. It's been a reality for just under two years. He's making…

Huw Evans logs into his beehives in Italy and the UK from where ever he is in the world. He can tell whether the bees have made honey, whether the queen's laying eggs or whether someone's pushed the…