Sally Rae

When a quartet of young Queen's High School entrepreneurs was looking for a cause to support, they could find none more uplifting than the Cancer Society.

Campbells Butchery in Oamaru has notched up its centenary this year.

Waitaki Refrigeration has been selected as one of four firms nationwide to deliver the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority's dairy shed heat-recovery programme.

A $6.5 million redevelopment at Leslie Groves Hospital is on track for completion by late November.

When young Jaron Fraser asked the Waitaki Boys' High School rector for help, he was not thinking of himself.

New Zealand wine exports hit a record $1.18 billion in the past financial year, up 8% on the previous year, despite difficult international market conditions.

When the Snell family goes on holiday, there is never a shortage of caravans to choose from.

Farmers are fair fizzing at the launch of New Zealand lamb on to the menu at McDonald's restaurants throughout the country.

First Tarras had Shrek - and now Tapui has Skip.

A steering group is investigating the possibility of copying in the South Island the residential training farm model, following concerns about the low level of skilled, work-ready employees in the sheep and beef sector.

  Henry Greenslade hopes smashing laptops will prove a profitable exercise.

Production has started at Fonterra's new $200 million milk powder plant near Darfield.

Alliance Group believes Brazil has "great potential" as an export market, after it secured New Zealand's first branded lamb shipment to the South American country.

Hearings will be held early next month on the Otago Regional Council's proposed water quality plan changes. Agribusiness reporter Sally Rae talks to a North Otago dairy farmer, who says the changes will put him out of business, and to the ORC for the reasons behind its plans.