The government is calling on farmers and growers to be part of a new programme to show how solar and battery systems can cut energy costs and build up resilience on New Zealand farms.
Millennial and Gen Z shoppers who buy fashionable clothes for resale when they tire of them are among overseas trends towards longer-lasting garments being tracked by the NZ Merino Company (NZM).
Volunteer helpers have been busy over the past few months stripping and incubating salmon eggs from broodstock hatchery fish at the McKinnon’s Creek Salmon Hatchery on the Rangitata River.
A private consortium is gauging interest in reviving a pumped hydro power project shelved by the National government as promised during the last election.
Despite a pre-election campaign in which he rode Invercargill streets on a bicycle, Robert Guyton confesses he has never ridden to an Environment Southland meeting.
The series "Outstanding Outhouses" features images of striking structures in the rural South, including this former telephone exchange building near Roxburgh Dam in Central Otago.