The Gore District Council has been accused of keeping the community and its councillors ‘‘in the dark’’ over looming amalgamation plans.

New Zealand has updated travel advice for the Middle East, warning the military conflict between Iran and the United States could escalate further in coming days.

Dairy farming is the best way to progress to land ownership in the primary sector "by a long shot" but it takes longer than it once did, Federated Farmers share farmer chairman Marcus Frost says.

In a winter series, Shawn McAvinue asks farmers about their winter crop.

If you are planning a family trip to Cairns, Melbourne-based travel writer Catherine Best suggests canyoning in Behana Gorge should be on your list of things to do.

The seeds of a fairer food system have already been planted, Sean Connelly writes.

OpenAI said an autonomous agent powered by its advanced AI models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face last week.

A teenage boy has been charged with murder after he allegedly killed his mother with a knife and stabbed his little sister, who managed to flee to get help.

Private healthcare is taking a greater role in the public health system, Peter Crampton and Gabrielle McDonald write.