Pea weevil already here?

A week remains for people wanting to make submissions on a resource consent application to build a new irrigation storage pond in the Mid (more)

Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has welcomed $345,000 in new funding to investigate expansion of the Mayfield Hinds Irrigation (more)

Mid Canterbury farmers are keeping a wary eye on the weather as the irrigation season gets under way and preparing for a dry year. The (more)

Most kids dream of sticking their teacher to a wall and Netherby School students did just that yesterday. However, the kids were helping (more)

Lauriston School students have taken inspiration from television show The Block for an enterprising project to grow vegetables and edible (more)

The 150-or-so kids at Hinds School had to be prised off their new playground yesterday to eat. The state-of-the-art playground was (more)

In August I wrote about the need to take some time off and rest. It is important to be still and acknowledge our Creator and in the (more)

You have to feel sorry for the local body election candidates who turned up on Thursday night to a meet-the-candidates evening. Fronting (more)

Sport is a cyclical business, we all know that. And however long it takes, your team will probably come back from the doldrums sometime, (more)

Seventy-six years ago this week a vehicle born of necessity made its debut. It gained iconic status almost immediately. And it’s never (more)

As I walk into the house, the unattended teenage boy’s antics suddenly hit my nostrils. I smell burning, God no, not burning, my mind (more)

It’s prostate cancer awareness month, so it’s time to focus on the health of the man in your life and how important their health is to them (more)

It’s hard to imagine the horrors that greeted New Zealand soldiers when they entered the Battle of the Somme. The many young Ashburton (more)

Finding items or subjects to write about for this column isn’t always easy. As far as the objects go, I tend to write about things I (more)

In the shadows of the night, a veiled woman lurked in the garden, staring at the house. Watching, waiting. It all started with a mysterious (more)

If you walk through Ashburton’s town centre at any hour of the day or night someone will be watching you. On walls, in trees, under (more)

Volunteers are not just the life blood of so many organisations but also of our whole community. Without them so many groups which (more)

After success last year Ashburton Wastebusters are again running Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week. The event encourages people to pick up (more)