Sally Rae

Wānaka's award-winning Top 10 Holiday Park has been sold to an overseas-based joint venture, which intends to maintain its current use.

Otago businessman Grant Cochrane was always going to return to farming, he just got side-tracked a little on the way.

"Heaven just got a whole lot louder." Tara McHardy (nee Hickey) was referring to her father, Brent Hickey, the gregarious Central Otago wool buyer who died on May 2, aged 67.

Otago businessman Grant Cochrane was always going to return to farming, he just got side-tracked a little on the way. Business and rural editor Sally Rae reports.

It could be the start of a riddle. Wānaka woman Shannon Phillimore gave birth to two babies within a short space of time, yet they were not twins. Confused?

Pacific Edge has opened its share purchase plan to raise $5 million as part of a $20m raise announced in late May.

Operating a seven-day-a-week retail business for nearly three decades might sound like a slog.

A Wānaka-based cleaning business owes creditors more than $1.75 million, the first liquidator’s report shows.

The Chook Tree will be getting its last trim today in time for the announcement of the Tree of the Year competition.

Farmers have the power.

Growing up on a sheep and beef farm in the King Country, Emma Foss never properly considered farming as a viable profession for a woman.