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Transport in disarray as NZTA Chair resigns

Continuing this Government's trend of cynically dropping bad news on a Friday afternoon was today's announcement that New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) Chair... Read More

Search continues for missing man at Whiritoa Beach

Police continue to search for 62-year-old Gordon Nicholson. Mr Nicholson was last seen at Whiritoa Beach on Tuesday April 23, possibly heading to a blow hole... Read More

Progress one year on from flooding event

Families are back home and future mitigation plans are being developed one year on from the severe weather event which cause flooding and widespread damage across... Read More

Well-travelled songstress to play in the Bay

From the bush clad hills of the wild west of Auckland come Catherine Tunks -with her Bona Fide Band - a well travelled songstress with her raggle taggle gang of... Read More

Saturday‘s national forecast

A cold front is pushing northwards over the South Island today then onto the western North Island overnight. Strong northwesterlies ahead of this front will... Read More

Raising the flags

'And when we have two or three minutes silence we can lower the flag to half mast and pay our respects” Mick, 70, who served in the Royal Navy for 12 years... Read More

Chiefs reshuffle for Hurricanes match

Gallagher Chiefs head coach Colin Cooper has reshuffled his twenty three ahead of this weekend's derby match against the Hurricanes at Westpac Stadium on Saturday.... Read More

An Itty Bitty Katikati Ditty

A few glib lines of a poem composed for 'a bit of fun” encapsulate the frustrations and disillusionment of 5,000 people - a whole town. 'Where is the bypass... Read More

Police say double fatal may be due to fatigue

Fatigue could be to blame for a double fatal crash in Waikato. Both drivers of the vehicles were killed when one of the cars drifted across the centre line on... Read More

Thames honour WW2 hero

‘Long overdue but very welcome' is how Coromandel MP Scott Simpson describes the unveiling of a new statue of Sir Keith Park in Thames tomorrow. 'It's... Read More

Fatal crash near Kawerau

One person has died following a serious crash on State Highway 34 (Kawerau Road West), between State Highway 30 and Kawerau. The crash occurred just after 5pm... Read More

Police name men who died following Waikato crash

Police have released the names of two men who died following a crash on Cambridge Road in Rotoorangi yesterday afternoon. A police spokesperson says the men were... Read More