Mike Sanford

The business finance guarantee scheme has been broadened by the government in an effort to get more companies to take up lending. The lending, administered by retail banks but 80 percent guaranteed by the Crown, has been increased to a $5 million limit, with the maximum term upped from three to five

An Invercargill couple are over the moon after finding out that they scooped a $5 million share of the $50 million Powerball prize from Saturday’s Must be Won draw. The couple, who wish to remain anonymous, had no idea they were sitting on the winning ticket until they visited Collingwood Foodcentre

There are nine new cases of Covid-19 in the community in New Zealand and two in the country’s managed isolation and quarantine facilities, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield has revealed. The latest from live update: There are 11 new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today. Nine are related

A new agriculture redeployment programme through the Southern Institute of Technology’s rural campus (Telford), has quickly filled a gap in the rural contracting sector. The programme was introduced in June in response to the post-lockdown job market, and to help fill employment needs in the rural s

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield will provide a COVID-19 update at 1.00 pm today.

The National Party wants to establish a Border Protection Agency to oversee and manage Covid-19 and any other public health threats at the border. Collins has likened the agency to korowai, describing it as a cloak of protection. The agency would be called Te Korowai Whakamaru. Watch the media confe

The Game Animal Council is welcoming Conservation Week and highlighting the great conservation and community-led volunteer work done by hunters through the ‘Hunters for Conservation’ #huntingisconservation badge. “Hunters spend a lot of time in our remote areas and are extremely passionate about con

An online programme to enhance positive interactions between pigs and stockpeople and minimise handling-related stress in pigs is being adopted across New Zealand’s pork sector. The ProHand Pigs Stockperson training course, developed by the Animal Welfare Science Centre at the University of Melbourn