The rural vote has become one of the fiercest battlegrounds of Election 2026, despite farming no longer being the backbone of the country's economy. If politics is all about numbers, this is a ...

The ACT party is proposing a new Rural Workforce Visa to help with worker shortages on farms. Building on the party's immigration policies announced last month, this would be a dedicated pathway to ...

Telehealth has been touted as one solution to New Zealand's ongoing health-care crisis, which is particularly stark in rural regions. But moving health services online can have a number of unintended ...

Howdy founder Mia Ryan says rural life can be lonely at times, so she wants to connect like-minded people.