Local Focus: Sam Johnson's music adventure in paradise
Music producer Sam Johnson works from the Taranaki coastal settlement of Ōakura.
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Local Focus: Sam Johnson's music adventure in paradise
Music producer Sam Johnson works from the Taranaki coastal settlement of Ōakura.
Local Focus: The coastal scientist harnessing the power of community
Jim Dahm explains why community involvement brings better outcomes to our beautiful coast.
Local Focus: The coastal scientist harnessing the power of community
Jim Dahm explains why community involvement brings better outcomes to our beautiful coast.
Local Focus: Your guardian angels on patrol
They may just be driving around, but Hawke's Bay community patrollers have got your back.
Local Focus: Community Patrols are the ears and eyes of the police
They may just be cruising around, but Hawke's Bay Community Patrollers have got your back.
Local Focus: The power of words
A wish penned last year by author Shilo Kino has become reality.
Local Focus: A writers festival beyond white privilege
An article penned in May 2021 for Newsroom by Shilo Kino brings positive change
Local Focus: Gisborne gym hosts hefty athletes
Olympic Weightlifter Megan Signal runs lifting workshop in Gisborne.
Local Focus: Gisborne gym hosts Games athlete
2022 Commonwealth Games weightlifter Megan Signal runs a lifting workshop in Gisborne.
Local Focus: Capital Connection's fight for survival
Cars vs trains - Manawatū to Wellington passenger rail service is popular but with carriages over 50 years old, it will disappear without more funding.
Local Focus: Regional passenger rail services fighting to survive
Cars v trains for the Manawatū-to-Wellington passenger rail service
Local Focus: The ancient art of Egyptian bookbinding in just 2 hours
Classical historian Robyn Ramsden teaches the ancient craft of Nag Hammadi bookbinding at Featherston Booktown.
Local Focus: The art of Nag Hammadi bookbinding in just 2 hours
Historian Robyn Ramsden teaches an ancient craft of bookbinding at Featherston Booktown.
Local Focus: Allowing young people's voices to be heard and valued
Tautua Village in Gisborne was created as a safe space for youth, says Malia Patea-Taylor.
Local Focus: Tautua Village allowing young people's voices to be heard and valued
Tautua Village in Gisborne is creating opportunities and a safe space for youth.
Local Focus: The hidden gem with giants
Walking among ancient native giants in northern Manawatū.
Local Focus: Nature's hidden gem with giants in Manawatū
Walking among ancient native giants in northern Manawatū.
Local Focus: Breast cancer also hits men and young women
28-year-old Megan Hati, who found out she had breast cancer on her son's sixth birthday, says people should get any symptoms checked out immediately.
Local Focus: Breast cancer also hits men and young women
Calling all men and young women to "feel your tits" to catch breast cancer early.
Local Focus: By-election candidates talk traffic
Transportation affects everybody but what solutions are the candidates proposing?
Local Focus: Tauranga byelection candidates talk traffic
It's an issue that affects everybody, but what solutions are the candidates proposing?
Local Focus: Learning to love the Gisborne cockroach
Experts say the Gisborne cockroach needs to be celebrated, not exterminated.
Hawke's Bay, you need to learn to love the Gisborne cockroach
Experts say the Gisborne cockroach needs to be celebrated, not exterminated.
Local Focus: Life lessons from Axel - aged 10
10 year old Axel Goldsbury is helping feed his family using survival skills he learned online.
Local Focus: Featherston's big but 'cosy' book festival
More than 7000 people are expected to literary festival Featherston Booktown 2022.
Local Focus: Featherston Booktown 2022
Featherston welcomes more than 7000 attendees to Wairarapa's largest literary weekend.
Local Focus: From SH1 to shared zone, Taupō upgrade opens the town up to the lakefront
Taupo's CBD is being opened up to its lakefront view thanks to a $20m upgrade.
Local Focus: From SH1 to shared zone, Taupō upgrade opens town up to the lakefront
The $20 million transformation of Taupō CBD to create a world-class precinct.
Local Focus: Art Deco Hastings on the rise
Hastings' upgrade is revealing more Art Deco buildings than Napier.
Local Focus: Hastings has more Art Deco architecture than Napier
Hastings' upgrade is revealing more Art Deco buildings than Napier.
Local Focus: Record crowds at Suzuki Extreme 4x4 Challenge
Record crowds in Turakina last weekend for the annual Suzuki Extreme 4x4 Challenge.
Local Focus: Dan Cowper's dream for the extreme
A record crowd descended on Dan Cowper's property in Turakina last weekend, experiencing the annual Suzuki Extreme 4x4 Challenge.
Local Focus: Peter Wakeman on Candidate Camera
Christchurch-based independent candidate on why’s he running in the Tauranga by-election.