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2024 NZ Dairy Awards celebrate farming excellence

The 2024 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards winners have a lot in common, including a passion for farming, innovation and positive change. DairyNZ chief executive... Read More

Silent killer: Call for ban of unflued gas heaters

As winter approaches and Kiwis gear up to combat the cold, health experts are sounding the alarm on a silent killer lurking in many New Zealand homes. Unflued... Read More

Youth Voices Action: launch of YouthFest

The Tauranga Youth Development Team, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to empowering young people in the Bay of Plenty, is thrilled to announce its rebrand... Read More

Three arrests made and firearm seized

Three people have been taken into custody and a firearm seized following two recent incidents in Rotorua. At around 8.35pm Sunday, May 12, Police responded... Read More

Police to establish new National Gang Unit

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster has today revealed plans to establish both national and frontline gang-focused units to combat offending and intimidation by... Read More

NZDF honours fallen in Cassino after 80 years

New Zealand Defence Force personnel are on their way to Italy, to honour those who fought and died in what were among the most gruelling battles for New Zealand... Read More

Long Term Plan community events

Western Bay of Plenty District Council is getting back to basics with a ‘grass roots' approach to community kōrero on its Long Term Plan. From rugby,... Read More

First of LTP hearings hosted at a marae

A successful day is how Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Chair has described the first day of Long Term Plan hearings held at Huria Marae.... Read More

Heavy rain expected in eastern Bay of Plenty

MetService has issued a heavy rain watch for the eastern Bay of Plenty and Tasman regions. A low pressure system in the Tasman Sea is expected to move eastwards... Read More

Sam Cane to call time on international career

Almost 12 years since making his All Blacks debut, Rugby World Cup winner and two-time Super Rugby champion Sam Cane has made the decision to bow out of the... Read More

WorkSafe seeks funding for prosecutions

WorkSafe alerted officials that it was running out of money to fund its prosecution over the deadly Whakaari/White Island disaster a month before the trial began... Read More

Potential toll of a 9.1 Hikurangi fault earthquake

By Lauren Crimp of RNZ The scale of catastrophe facing Aotearoa in the case of a massive earthquake and tsunami from our largest fault - the Hikurangi subduction... Read More