COMMENT: Every time Father's Day rolls around, it makes me think about the huge influence a father can have upon a daughter.

When a bug in Havelock North's water supply caused an outbreak of campylobacter weeks ago, we asked the question, how could this happen in NZ?

Consumers are demanding more traceability when it comes to what we eat but, as illustrated by the incident in Havelock North recently

Dom takes on some ill-informed keyboard warriors in this week's Furious George.

Clean drinking water is something most of us take for granted in New Zealand - or at least we did until the shocking outbreak of gastric

During the year of 2011 the Healthy Populations team for the Hawke's Bay District Health Board at that time developed their Strategic

Heading into a third year of low prices, questions have to be asked whether the dairy industry is on a false path. If so, where is the path back to firm ground?

There was a presidential-style entrance and a standing ovation as Winston Peters turned up to speak in Dannevirke recently. Ron Mark

We need to move past the blame game and seek meaningful and lasting answers, says William Rolleston.

It's a burden for landowners to host public infrastructure on their property and most have been installed in the past without compensation. Utilities

Dom George wonders why we can't all just get along?

Dr Doug Edmeades writes of his fondness for the mighty Fergie 28.

Martin Williams (Talking Point, August 12), overlooked my full support for dams and water storage and focused on his novel version

The Country's Jamie Mackay reminisces about a night he spent in the company of sporting heroes Dick Tayler and Sir Colin Meads.

It's cold, wet and miserable out there, as I write, and a chilly wind blows as a dozen calves daily plop into the mud, Mother Nature

Local communities pitching in has made a world of difference to people affected by the recent snowstorm in north-west Hawke's Bay

Sports commentator Paul Allison has some fascinating Olympic tales. Dom George rips them off wholesale in this week's column.

COMMENT: There is little NZ can do about high dollar or inflation.

A suggestion that New Zealand should remove 80per cent of dairy cows to return to a natural environment overlooks various fundamental

The dairy industry is facing its third season of low payouts. It's been tough and farmers have been looking out for their families

Parliament must make an urgent stand to defend local democracy. Our elected representatives must not give the Government sweeping

Dom George scores an own goal watching too much Olympic coverage rather than doing his job.

Last year, the shiny suits and directors at Silver Fern Farms (SFF) said the co-op was in crisis and faced receivership or liquidation. They

COMMENT: Here are some of the life lessons Byron Wien has learned in his first 80 years.

It's hard not to be impressed by the intellectual and technological grunt going into horticultural industry, Barry Soper writes.

The Country's Jamie Mackay is flexing his creative muscles with a clever Agricultural ABC poem.

COMMENT: Getting rid of that big debt involves paying more, more often.

Martin Williams' comment in his 'Talking Point' (August 1) "What we do on land, matters in our rivers and in the sea" makes good sense

What a month of wet weather we've had. Hopefully things will warm up and dry a bit so management can be a bit easier through lambing

Kiwirail's treatment of farmers while it implements a new charging regime was the source of aggravation at Federated Farmers National