Local Focus: Hastings' heart is back
After eight years of hard work, Hastings' heart is back.
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Local Focus: Simon Nixon on Candidate Camera
Meet Simon Nixon who is running again for Hastings District Council.
Local Focus: Michael Law on Candidate Camera
Meet Michael Law who is running for Whanganui District Council.
Local Focus: DC Harding on Candidate Camera
Meet DC Harding, who is running for Whanganui District Council - and mayor.
Local Focus: James Barron on Candidate Camera
Meet James Barron, who is running for Whanganui District Council.
Local Focus: Helen Craig on Candidate Camera
Helen Craig is running again for Whanganui District Council.
Local Focus: Rawinia Parata on Candidate Camera
Rawinia Parata is a candidate for the Gisborne District Council.
Local Focus: Rawinia Parata on Candidate Camera
Meet Rawinia Parata, candidate for Gisborne District Council.
Local Focus: Larry Foster on Candidate Camera
Meet Gisborne District Council candidate Larry Foster.
Local Focus: Mana of the jersey changing lives on the East Coast
Ngāti Porou East Coast women's rugby and the amazing wāhine behind it.
Local Focus: Cherry smashes rugby's glass ceiling
Former Black Fern Cherry Blyde is Taranaki Rugby's first female president
Local Focus: Whanganui's summer buzz just got louder
Whanganui & Partners has recently announced recipients for it's 2022 to 2023 events fund.
Artist CHIMP vs Aotearoa's housing crisis
Artist responds to the housing crisis in his latest exhibition: Escape Mechanism
The programme helping at-risk youth find 'meaningful employment'
Inside the youth programme helping kids on struggle street find meaningful employment.
Local Focus: Dream come true for Gisborne boxer
Tawhiri Toheriri-Hallet heads to Birmingham as working hard at the gym pays off.
Local Focus: The Whanganui bread recognised by Unesco
George Jackson believes traditional Māori bread is the future.
Local Focus: Mysterious giant snails found in Tōtara Reserve Regional Park
Carnivorous Powelliphanta marchanti snails have been seen in Tōtara Reserve Regional Park.
Local Focus: The heart of Palmerston North for green Kiwis
A community garden is growing more joy than just vegetables.
Local Focus: Auction houses go viral
This year Hastings has gone from having no auction house to three auction houses.
Local Focus: Reducing drug harm means admitting for most of us drugs are harmless
The importance of testing drugs and being honest with young people to reduce harm.
Local Focus: When arty opposites attract
Gisborne couple Jason and Holly's differing art styles complement each other nicely.
Local Focus: Making space for face-to-face
Massey University readies for the return to in-person learning.
Local Focus: Guide dog not wanted
An insight into the discrimination guide-dog handlers can face in everyday live.
Local Focus: Tauranga museum gets green light
Highlights from the Heritage Collection – soon to be showcased in the new civic precinct
Napier and Hastings councils to choke the smoke
Napier and Hastings councils are tightening up smoking rules.
Local Focus: Rob Tucker and the cream of NZ photojournalists to auction images for Taranaki Hospice
Rob Tucker's photography has affected people around him for over half a century.
Local Focus: A creative world that's not too 'blokey'
The Hawke's Bay Woodturners Guild takes teaching seriously.
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: Your guardian angels on patrol
They may just be driving around, but Hawke's Bay community patrollers have got your back.
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: Regional passenger rail services fighting to survive
Cars v trains for the Manawatū-to-Wellington passenger rail service
Local Focus: The art of Nag Hammadi bookbinding in just 2 hours
Historian Robyn Ramsden teaches an ancient craft of bookbinding at Featherston Booktown.