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Local Focus - Gisborne's first Special Olympics team

Gisborne's first Special Olympics-grade basketball team will be competing at the National Māori Basketball competition in Rotorua in January.

Local Focus: 'It doesn't become a coffin until I'm in it'

The Kiwi Coffin Club is making a difference with bespoke coffins at half the usual price.

Local Focus: Meet the Kiwi characters making coffins for charity

The Kiwi Coffin Club is making a difference with bespoke coffins at half the usual price

Local Focus: Lockwood celebrates seventy years

Lockwood Homes has built more than thirty thousand homes using only Kiwi timber.

Local Focus: Walk to the heartbeat of Mauao

Experience the rhythm of Mauao (Mount Maunganui) through a unique, soundscape app that tracks your location.

Local Focus: Lockwood Homes celebrates 70 years

Lockwood has built more than 30,000 homes. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Local Focus: Walking with the rhythm of Mauao

Experience the rhythm of Mauao - Mount Maunganui - through a soundscape app.

Local Focus: Creating uncomfortable discussions

A panel discussion on institutional racism with an indigenous lens.

Local Focus: Creating uncomfortable discussions about colonisation

When Te Kurahuna held a panel discussion on racism in Gisborne, the subject was institutional racism through an indigenous lens.

'Record numbers': Bay residents smash daily vaccine record on Super Saturday

Several health providers offered incentives to encourage people to get vaccinated.

Local Focus: 'Fully vaxxed - bring on summer!'

Free jab and ice cream brings the crowds to Mount Maunganui vaccination event.

Local Focus: Super Saturday and Sunday are also for the undecided

Super Sunday has been added to Whanganui's weekend vaccine rollout.

Changes and reopenings as Hawke's Bay country pubs turn corner

The decline in Hawke's Bay country pubs appears to be over.

Local Focus: The change in Hawke's Bay's country pubs

The decline in the number of Hawke's Bay country pubs appears to be over.

Local Focus: Archiving Tauranga's history

Behind the scenes of Tauranga City Libraries' efforts to preserve local history online.

Local Focus: Archiving Tauranga’s history

Behind the scenes of Tauranga City Libraries’ efforts to preserve local history online.

Local Focus: Volunteers urgently needed for large production

Much ado to prepare for this summer's Merry Shakespeare in the Park.

Local Focus: Volunteers needed for merry production

“I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.” Shakespeare in the Park has much to prepare before February.