Sally Rae

It is hard to fathom how he does it.

Rural mental health advocate Kathryn Wright is undertaking what she believes to be the first social research in New Zealand on population loss due to forestry conversions.

Alliance Group is refusing to comment on speculation Irish meat company Dawn Meats is taking a majority stake in the farmer-owned co-operative.

Rural mental health advocate Kathryn Wright is undertaking what she believes to be the first social research in New Zealand on population loss due to forestry conversions.

Wānaka's award-winning Top 10 Holiday Park has been sold to an overseas-based joint venture, which intends to maintain its current use.

Otago businessman Grant Cochrane was always going to return to farming, he just got side-tracked a little on the way.

"Heaven just got a whole lot louder." Tara McHardy (nee Hickey) was referring to her father, Brent Hickey, the gregarious Central Otago wool buyer who died on May 2, aged 67.

Otago businessman Grant Cochrane was always going to return to farming, he just got side-tracked a little on the way. Business and rural editor Sally Rae reports.

It could be the start of a riddle. Wānaka woman Shannon Phillimore gave birth to two babies within a short space of time, yet they were not twins. Confused?

Pacific Edge has opened its share purchase plan to raise $5 million as part of a $20m raise announced in late May.

Operating a seven-day-a-week retail business for nearly three decades might sound like a slog.

A Wānaka-based cleaning business owes creditors more than $1.75 million, the first liquidator’s report shows.