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Free bus services for NZ Rural Games weekend
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"This is an outrage" to East Coast people dealing with huge piles of forestry debris.
Aongatete dairy farmers fined $28k for illegal cowshed discharge
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Avocado orchard to pay $62k after failing to protect worker when wire snapped
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Police, firefighters and a rescue helicopter were sent to the remote scene.
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Cyclone Gabrielle: The isolated Eskdale community at the end of the road
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Kūmara selling for up to $14/kg after Cyclone Gabrielle
"If the demand's still strong and the volume's not there, then the prices will stay high."
Forest waste ‘critical factor’ in rupture of city's water pipe
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'New risk': Transpower warns of power cuts after slip threatens towers
A slip has threatened the country's power supply to the north.
'Animal welfare risk': Kokopuru Station still cut off after cyclone
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See ya, La Niña: Autumn to bring different flavour for drenched northeast
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Cut off: A 'forgotten' town, angry residents and a fight to survive
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Field Days is back: Northland's largest agriculture event returns after three-year Covid layoff
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Carper makers Bremworth and Godfrey Hirst are locked in a litigation battle.
Waitomo hunting for new event to replace Te Kūiti Muster
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Kiwifruit orchardists rally despite numerous setbacks
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