Rural News

‘Vision is for all people living in rural communities to live long and healthy lives’.

A Dunedin gynaecologist sold her home to fund a bus that brings better health care to women in remote areas.

Rolling sequence of extreme weather events have stretched resources.

TUANZ CEO urges management of expectations as alternative comms come to the fore.

Pink Week, which runs from June 2-9, aims to raise awareness of the rural donation scheme.

Funds also earmarked to bring more electric vehicle charging stations to remoter areas.

First responders increasingly relied on to meet need.

Score or more will be getting out the No 8 to repair flooded boundaries in Hawke’s Bay.

Former Beef + Lamb NZ extension manager appointed to new GM role.

In the interim, communities have found their own solutions such as a mobile healthcare facility to assist women.

Small rural hospitals, often the only source of healthcare for the 25% of New Zealanders who live in rural areas, are feeling neglected, misunderstood, frustrated and burnt out.

Services struggling with a shortage of doctors and lack of access to diagnostic services.

A Cheltenham-based author interviewed elderly members of rural New Zealand in an effort to ensure that their legacies live on through their own words.

FMG has bolstered resources across claims and assessing teams and is working at ways to streamline process to get more claims paid.

The modest clubrooms in the Lindis Valley received a spruce-up before the centennial celebrations.

Researchers warn rural NZ to expect a rise in anything from water-borne pathogens to bacteria carried by rats.

Kiwis flock to farm open days all over the country.

Fun day capped with chance to appear in book on historic ride against the tide.

Local nurse sees the best of her community as floods bring devastation.

Community BBQs full of stories of toll taken on farms north of Auckland.

Significant amount of scoured and greasy wool at Napier site has been contaminated by floodwaters.

Massive display of farm machinery lines up for Island’s biggest agricultural event.

Campaign aims to raise as much money as possible to help with Cyclone Gabrielle recovery.

Perception that crime is spiking disputed by police, however.

Inspector Karen Ellis has been appointed in terms of a new police strategy to address rural policing needs.

The harsher impact of weather events for farmers and growers has been the cumulative effect of enduring monthly rainfall levels well above average.

Report outlines challenges faced by far-flung communities during pandemic.

Elite athletes short of leg but long on ambition.

Some criminals treat farmers’ stock ‘like going to the supermarket or butchery’, regularly taking sheep or cattle from paddocks to replenish their freezers.

The increase has prompted Feds to launch another joint rural crime survey with police in March and April, just two years after the previous one.

With volunteering comes leadership within communities, and the researchers identified champions who were prepared to pick up the mantle on big projects, inspiring others to follow.

Te Anau Downs Station received more than a quarter-million NZ dollars in compensation.

High-powered lineup for Christchurch agribusiness convention.

Well over one million meals raised for Kiwis in need just in time for Christmas.

Rabobank survey names government policy, rising costs.

The goal for The Big Feed is to raise enough donations for one million meals.