Mike Sanford

New Zealand venison farmers are being caught out by the Chinese government’s moves to clamp down on the trade of wild meat. The confusion has prompted some processors here to hold off shipping venison to the country. China has been tightening its rules on the trade of wild meat in the wake of the Co

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has announced Moving Day will go ahead as planned for dairy farmers this year, but with strict controls to help prevent the spread of Covid-19. On 1 June each year, the first day of the new dairy season, a large number of dairy farming families, sharemilkers, con

Prime Minister Jacinda Arden and Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health We’ll have a live stream of the media conference here. Watch the daily media conference with government officials and ministers. Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern are giv

Invercargill Police are seeking sightings of a vehicle in relation to missing man Dale Watene, who was last seen on April 16 in Otautau. Mr Watene had been using a blue 1995 Isuzu SUV style vehicle (pictured below) registration CGE638. This vehicle was located by Police on April 18 at Holt Park in O

Fourteen people have been arrested and 50 vehicles have been recovered after 112 Jucy rental vehicles were stolen last week In a release, police said they understand 112 vehicles were stolen from the car yard in Mangere last week. Fifty of the vehicles have been recovered so far. “The vast majority

The All of Government COVID-19 National Response will provide updates at 1.00 pm and 1.30 pm today. The level 4 lockdown has ended and New Zealand is now in alert level 3. The country will be in alert level 3 for at least two weeks and Cabinet will reveal what happens next on 11 May. […]

A Bluff restaurant which was at the centre of the country’s largest Covid-19 outbreak is reopening today, as it prepares to move on. A wedding at the Southland town’s Oyster Cove Restaurant has been linked to 98 cases of the virus. From that cluster, 68 people have recovered so far. Oyster Cove dire

Up to 400 people could die from cancer if hospitals don’t catch up quickly enough after the lockdown, the Cancer Society says. It was basing its analysis on new British research into the impact a three-month delay in cancer diagnosis and treatment there because of the pandemic. The study, by The Ins