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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: Tauranga byelection candidates talk traffic

It's an issue that affects everybody, but what solutions are the candidates proposing?

Hawke's Bay, you need to learn to love the Gisborne cockroach

Experts say the Gisborne cockroach needs to be celebrated, not exterminated.

10-year-old already a dab hand at fishing - and life lessons

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: 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: 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: Peter Wakeman on Candidate Camera

Christchurch-based independent candidate Peter Wakeman running in Tauranga by-election.

Kerikeri's Rainbow Falls in flood

30 May 2022. Kerikeri's Rainbow Falls in flood after a night of heavy rain. Video / Northern Advocate