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Robert McLean (centre) with whanau and supporters, and CHB District Mayor Alex Walker, receiving a Community Services Award for service to pest control and the conservation of biodiversity. Photo / Jackie Lowry Photography Robert McLean (centre) with whanau and supporters, and CHB District Mayor Alex Walker, receiving a Community Services …

Italy is a funfair for the tastebuds and the perfect place for a food-filled adventure, but the origins of its culinary traditions might just surprise you, writes Suzy Pope. Over the centuries, we’ve tinkered with each traditional pasta dish, pizza and delicate dessert, adding and taking away i

Sunshine and blue skies greeted customers at the opening of Takapau’s Botanicafe. Photo / Judy Innes Over the weekend CHB’s latest cafe - Botanicafe - held its grand opening with an event drawing in Takapau locals as well as people from around the wider Central Hawke’s Bay. Botanicafe is based …

Pōrangahau School’s Year 2-4 Tauretaikai class help with the planting. Photo / Michaela Gower The Pōrangahau Catchment Group planted 240 plants along the riverside at the Pōrangahau Jetty in a planting day last week. Maddy McLean, the Pōrangahau Catchment Group priority projects co-ordinator, said the day was a success. “All …

Classic cars nestled under the autumn oak trees at Central Hawke's Bay's Easter Motorfest to raise funds for the cyclone clean-up. Photo / Paul Taylor Classic cars nestled under the autumn oak trees at Central Hawke's Bay's Easter Motorfest to raise funds for the cyclone clean-up. Photo / Paul Taylor …

Pōrangahau players battled away in the wind, rain, and mud. Photo / Michaela Gower Pōrangahau players battled away in the wind, rain, and mud. Photo / Michaela Gower As the 2023 town and country club rugby finds itself at the end of the season, all teams, players, and coaches can …

Fiji is one of the great but lesser-known destinations for stargazing. Photo / Getty Images With few obstructions, open views, and no city light pollution in resort locations, Fiji is one of the great but lesser-known destinations for stargazing, writes Tracey Cheung. Late last year, in October 2022, Nasa’s SSERVI …

Alba Thermal Springs and Spa is just one place that features Finnish sauna experiences. Photo / Supplied Over the past couple of years, contrast therapy bathing has exploded in Victoria, Australia. From hot springs to bathhouses, Tracey Cheung checks the trend out. Hot and cold contrast therapy is described as …

Birthing a baby is a brutal shock to body and mind. But one of the hardest things Clementine Ford faced when she gave birth to her son was the shame of being trapped in a world she'd spent her career railing against.

Māori Businesswomen's Awards take place at the Aotea Centre on July 29. Photo / Supplied Māori Businesswomen's Awards take place at the Aotea Centre on July 29. Photo / Supplied Wāhine Māori in business will be celebrated for their resilience and service to their communities at this year's Māori Businesswomen's …

Thousands of West Aucklanders have signed a petition that plans for the maternity unit be approved before June so development can start this year. Photo / Sylvie Whinray Thousands of West Aucklanders have signed a petition that plans for the maternity unit be approved before June so development can start …

People on foot still tried to get their chicken fix by lining up alongside cars at the Whanganui KFC drive-through after the restaurant closed. Photo / supplied People on foot still tried to get their chicken fix by lining up alongside cars at the Whanganui KFC drive-through after the restaurant …

On Tuesday Chase Whareaorere pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery in Whanganui District Court. Sheldon Rogerson plead guilty to one count of conversion of a vehicle. On Tuesday Chase Whareaorere pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery in Whanganui District Court. Sheldon Rogerson plead guilty to one count of conversion of a vehicle. …

From her kitchen window, a witness at the High Court in Whanganui told the jury yesterday she saw Craig Rippon attacked "with rage, with anger, with force". Tyrone Peter Madams, Matthew Thomas Madams, Kevin Roy Madams and two youths are charged with the murder of Mr Rippon, 57, in Whanganui …

LIFE LINE: Avonlea rest home manager Anna Grey says the elderly are suffering under the lines charges. Photo/James Baker LIFE LINE: Avonlea rest home manager Anna Grey says the elderly are suffering under the lines charges. Photo/James Baker For years Ohakune and the wider King Country have been battling The …

The giant wooden man watches over Kiwiburn, as tents emerge from the ground. Photograph by Bevan Conley. The giant wooden man watches over Kiwiburn, as tents emerge from the ground. Photograph by Bevan Conley. Every year in late January a community of tents emerges from a paddock in Hunterville. Kiwiburn …

Whareama School teaching principal Darren Kerr has won New Zealand's only National Excellence Award for primary teaching in 2021. It was Kerr's first nomination for the award in his 24 years of teaching. "You hear stories from parents about how well the school is going, but until you hear it …

Masterton Trust House Recreation Centre has a new room for the neurodiverse. Masterton's newest activity for kids has been revealed, after 18 months in the making. Trust House Recreation Centre now has a Sensory Room for its daycare programme. Venue manager Marilyn Sayers said it aimed to be a calm-but-interesting …

Some may consider proposing 19 months after meeting someone, enduring almost a year long-distance then moving halfway around the world to marry them, a bit risky. But for David Gear, life is too short for 'what ifs'.

By the time she was 19, Chloe had already written eight novels. Photo / Instagram Chloe Gong wrote These Violent Delights in her childhood home in Auckland in May 2018. As in: that month she started writing it, and also finished. She was 19. Seven months later she landed a …

MEDIA. The number one stadium in the world: Eden Park rockets to the top of international rankings.

Whanganui's Te Awhina mental health facility recorded overcrowding and multiple violent incidents over the course of 2020.

Ron Brierley told police officers quizzing him over a cache of images of naked children he had saved to several devices that the pictures were "all perfectly okay" and he had downloaded them because he thought they "looked interesting".

An investigation into use of force within the Whanganui policing district.

Sherry Zhang shares what it means for her to be part of an anthology of Asian writing. In A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand, the first-ever anthology of its kind, editors Paula Morris and Alison Wong note that the word "Asian" contains a large, complex and …

A protester flashes the victory sign in front of burning tires and debris on road 60, near Khartoum's army headquarters, in Sudan. File photo / AP A protester flashes the victory sign in front of burning tires and debris on road 60, near Khartoum's army headquarters, in Sudan. File photo …

Down a nondescript country lane near Murchison is one of New Zealand's best-kept secrets: Owen River Lodge, a fly-fishing destination on the edge of Kahurangi National Park that few Kiwis know about, let alone visit.

Zac Guildford and Sonny Bill Williams wrestle during training for the Rugby World Cup. Photo / AP Zac Guildford and Sonny Bill Williams wrestle during training for the Rugby World Cup. Photo / AP Sonny Bill Williams has expressed his support for fellow All Black Zac Guildford. Williams, currently on …

Zac Guildford and Sonny Bill Williams wrestle during training for the Rugby World Cup. Photo / AP Zac Guildford and Sonny Bill Williams wrestle during training for the Rugby World Cup. Photo / AP Sonny Bill Williams has expressed his support for fellow All Black Zac Guildford. Williams, currently on …

Lonely Planet describes New Zealand's oldest park Tongariro as "a serene realm of geological anomalies". Photo / Greg Bowker Lonely Planet describes New Zealand's oldest park Tongariro as "a serene realm of geological anomalies". Photo / Greg Bowker Lonely Planet has named Tongariro National Park as one of the world's …