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Pucker up for a walk that's flush with wineries
Get your steps up with the Four Barrels Wine Trail, a walk interspersed with wine stops.
'Mental anguish'- Call to extend work visa, too little, too late
Government has announced 'last minute' a visa extension for seasonal staff
Grape shortage: 'Worst in at least a decade' says Pernod Ricard boss
Bryan Fry says winemaker is working through industry-wide supply issues.
Wine price warning: Smaller vintage could add 20% to a bottle
Villa Maria says its grape harvest is down almost 30 per cent this year.
The parallel pandemic: Heavy toll of Covid on our kids' mental health
Covid's impact on mental health, especially in youth, will outlive virus, experts say.
Wanaka food and wine festival off to a good start
More than 2000 people attended the first Ripe festival on Sunday.
'Unprecedented' worker shortage: Loaded livestock trucks turned away from meatworks
Progressive Meats says staff shortage is "unprecedented" as workers choose to pick fruit.
$300 a day for fruit picking? Potential goldmine for Kiwi workers
Picking contractors are offering big prices to lure in orchard workers this season.
Native plants instead of sprays
Villa Maria is trialling under-vine natives. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Wine business fined $120,000 for exploiting workers
Company pinged for serious employment law breaches.
Govt: Bill restricting house sales will have small effect on prices
National says the bill has been a textbook exercise of bad law-making.
Govt begins winding down irrigation funding
Big private irrigation schemes should be economically viable on their own, Robertson says.
Chinese university chooses EIT partnership
The 2015 student cohort is progressing into the third year of the programme.
EIT head of viticulture retires
Diane Marshall has retired as head of EIT's School of Viticulture and Wine Science.
Mainfreight cops migrant ban
New measures to stop worker exploitation came into force in April
The NZ region with the hottest economy
ASB's latest Regional Economic Scoreboard shows Auckland is struggling to keep up.