Local News
11:02am Fri 20 May, 2016
The country's had its say, $26 million has been spent and the alternative flag has been committed to the shredder without so much as a flutter. But that doesn't... Read More
09:13am Fri 20 May, 2016
It's been one of life's interesting role reversals. The master became servant for the servant who is now the master. And soon the master who became the servant... Read More
08:20am Fri 20 May, 2016
'Let's go outside and chat. I just love sunny days.” Natural enough considering the dark, gloomy and scary places that Leisa Renwick has visited recently. 'Melanoma... Read More
04:03pm Thu 19 May, 2016
About 20 anti-mining protestors climbed Mount Karangahake last week to disrupt an exploratory drilling programme. Newcrest Gold Mining company is planning three... Read More
10:56am Fri 13 May, 2016
This is a story about a martial artist, a truck driver, a photographer, a scuba diver, and a man and his dog. It's a story about not letting anything hold you back. You... Read More
09:30am Fri 13 May, 2016
'Genius' - that's how Colin Lunt describes his long-time associate, friend and Kokomo frontman Derek Jacombs. To celebrate the Tauranga band's 25th birthday this... Read More
09:00am Fri 13 May, 2016
It's an old steel truss bridge - functional rather than fussy. And all day it rumbles to the tune of the East Coast's main trunkline container traffic. Into the... Read More
08:00am Fri 13 May, 2016
It cranked and cranked. Then it cranked some more. Eight to 10 men with avgas coursing through their veins, all in hi viz, all with hearts in mouths and hopes soaring... Read More
03:00pm Fri 06 May, 2016
The army recruiter probably saved George Alexander Wootton's butt. He was young and reckless and wanted to teach 'those bloody Germans” a lesson. 'I am not... Read More
02:30pm Fri 06 May, 2016
It was a pilgrimage of sorts back to her roots in the Bay of Plenty, to where she grew up and was educated. She read her poetry at an Anzac Day commemoration but... Read More
02:00pm Fri 06 May, 2016
It's just gone 8.45am, she's taking her three-year-old to day care, she's fending off a pesky reporter on hands free, dispelling myths, contemplating the essence... Read More
01:30pm Fri 06 May, 2016
It all looked a bit incongruous really. Given name John, John Herbison - spiritual name Yasoda Dulal - is standing in the middle of small-town New Zealand, the... Read More












