The Canterbury A&P Association's board is keeping quiet after it emerged one of its own received $75,000 to help secure a $5m bailout deal with a council.
About 500 trail runners will be greeted at the finishing line of the Skedaddle race this weekend by Island Hills Station landowners Dan and Mandy Shand.
Alliance Group has announced a capital raise from cash-strapped farmer shareholders — a move described by a farming leader as "almost a little unfair".
As sea changes go, this is a big one with a North Canterbury couple to transition from high country farmers to blue ocean sailors, Tim Cronshaw writes.