Local Focus: Making BOP predator free
The battle to bring native birds back to our backyards has begun.
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Local Focus: Art, coffee and gin are the secrets to success for entrepreneurial couple
Horopito, kawakawaka, miro berries and stamens of pōhutukawa are fun to find and distil.
Local Focus: Art, coffee and gin are the secrets to business success
Horopito, kawakawaka, miro berries and stamens of pōhutukawa are fun to find and distil.
Local Focus: Young mothers seek the light at Puawānanga
Inside Masterton's teen parent unit.
The club helping lay loved ones to rest
Volunteers at Coffin Club Hawke’s Bay have been making baby coffins since 2015.
Local Focus: The club helping lay loved ones to rest
Volunteers at Coffin Club Hawke’s Bay have been making baby coffins since 2015.
Watch: Girls' High rugby team inspired by idol chat
Chiefs Manawa star Luka Connor believes the future is "huge" for tomorrow's players.
Local Focus: Rotorua Girls High hosts women’s Chiefs
Chiefs Manawa star Luka Connor believes the future is "huge" for tomorrow's players.
Local Focus: Transforming Rotorua into a tech hub
Rotorua’s reputation as a technology hub is attracting professionals to the region.
Local Focus: Transforming Rotorua into a tech hub
Rotorua’s reputation as a technology hub is attracting professionals to the region.
Local Focus: City's first Latin Expo helps migrants 'break down the barriers'
'It’s an opportunity to connect with organisations that we didn’t know existed.'
Local Focus: Connecting migrants to services
Local service providers come together for Tauranga's first-ever Latin Expo at The Cargo Shed.
Local Focus: Meet the 90+ master swimmers
At 91, Michael Tunnicliffe is the oldest competitor in the 2023 Masters Swimming Champs.
Local Focus: Meet the 90+ master swimmers
At 91, Michael Tunnicliffe was the oldest competitor at the 2023 Masters Swimming Champs.
Local Focus: The right to clean clothes
Koha Apparel is on a mission to help the vulnerable look good and feel great.
Local Focus: 'Massive increase' in clothing need as cost of living bites, winter nears
Koha Apparel is on a mission to help the vulnerable look good and feel great.
Local Focus: Gisborne community rallies around family who lost it all
The Alexander's family home was destroyed by flooding after Cyclone Gabrielle.
Local Focus: Gisborne community rallies around family who lost it all
The Alexander family home was destroyed by flooding after Cyclone Gabrielle.
Local Focus: Sowing the seeds of love
Hundreds of ‘bucket gardens’ are being given away to rebuild cyclone-affected gardens.
Local Focus: Sowing the seeds of love
Hundreds of ‘bucket gardens’ are being given away to rebuild cyclone-affected gardens.
Local Focus: Wairarapa film festival showcases early Preston doco
Nine local films set to be showcased as part of the Wairarapa Film Festival.
Wairarapa Film Festival showcases early Preston doco
Nine local films set to be showcased as part of the Wairarapa Film Festival.
Local Focus: Charity out to serve up kindness
Meet the volunteers who bake home-cooked treats for locals doing it tough.
Local Focus: Good Bitches Baking
Meet the volunteers who bake home-cooked treats for locals doing it tough.
Local Focus: Where to live after losing everything?
For many impacted by the cyclone, the best accommodation option has been family.
Local Focus: Where to live after losing everything?
For many impacted by the cyclone, the best accommodation option has been family.
Local Focus: Meet the Taranaki Dragons
Taranaki breast cancer survivors paddle on to the world stage.
Local Focus: Meet the Taranaki Dragons
Taranaki breast cancer survivors paddle onto the world stage.
Local Focus: Reviving Carterton's roller skate scene
Roller skaters are flocking to Carterton’s A&P Showgrounds for a smooth ride.
Local Focus: Carterton's skate scene revival
Roller skaters are flocking to Carterton's A&P Showgrounds for a smooth ride.
Local Focus: Meet the Nanas knitting for the Cool Kids
Knitting for Cool Kids Rotorua will be donating over 800 packs of hand knitted clothes.
Local Focus: The Altered Rose takes upcycling to the next level
The one-woman furniture restoration business turning something old into something new.