Mum hopes cannabis poll helps
Tracy Yeats hopes Govt will take notice of a survey which shows overwhelming support for legalisation and decriminalisation of cannabis for medicinal use.
Tracy Yeats hopes Govt will take notice of a survey which shows overwhelming support for legalisation and decriminalisation of cannabis for medicinal use.
Devoted Harley-Davidson fan Gary McPhee saved the best to last -- taking his final ride yesterday as guest of honour at the head of hundreds of roaring motorcycles of all colours and all makes and models.
The sudden death of one of Wairarapa's most colourful characters and community leaders has shocked and saddened the district.
A barn on a property in Carterton has been engulfed in flames.
The parents of a young woman killed in the 2012 Carterton hot-air balloon crash say they waited six days to see her body.
Photos depicting the moment a hot air balloon carrying 11 people hit power lines, caught fire and plummeted to the ground have been released by a coroner today.
A photographer who captured the fatal Carterton hot air balloon tragedy has lost an application to overturn a coroner's decision to release some of his images to the media.
The inquest into the Carterton hot air balloon disaster left victims’ families reeling from revelations about the balloon’s pilot — and asking why authorities didn’t act.
A young couple who jumped from a burning hot air balloon basket had their whole lives ahead of them and thought the pilot they were flying with was the "safest" in NZ.
A witness has described hearing a balloon pilot tell passengers to "duck down" before screams of panic were heard from the basket.
A man who worked with the pilot found to have cannabis in his system after his hot air balloon crashed in Carterton, killing 10, had no idea he smoked cannabis.
The daughter of a couple who died in the Carterton balloon tragedy has told a Coronial inquest of watching the balloon catch fire before it plummeted to the ground.
More than two years after a ballooning accident claimed the lives of their loved ones, relatives are reliving the details of the ill-fated day at a coroner's inquest.
A gruelling week lies ahead for families of the Carterton hot air balloon crash victims as they again hear evidence of how their loved ones died.
Twenty lambs have been found dead on a farm in Carterton, thought to have been savaged by dogs.
More than 200 mourners have gathered this morning at St Mark's Church in Carterton to remember the 11 victims of the hot air balloon tragedy one year ago today.
One person has been taken to hospital following a crash between a car and a truck in Carterton this morning.
Carterton schoolgirl Grace Yeats successfully underwent brain surgery on Wednesday aiming to calm powerful spasms.
Carterton schoolgirl Grace Yeats will today become the first child in New Zealand to receive electrical brain implants to help calm her violent seizures.