Local Focus: Every Friday is Women's Day
Masterton's King St Artworks hosts women's-only days every Friday to boost mental health
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Local Focus: Thank GodsOwn for harvesting hopportunity
GodsOwn Brewery harvests its hops using customers' sticky fingers
Local Focus: Big tractor saves little birds
Hawke's Bay's riverbed management is a rare win-win for industry and the environment.
Local Focus: Newbies at the new skatepark
Masterton skateboarders check out the new skatepark
Local Focus: Biker moves to mobility scooter
Jamie Chapman on his recovery from a motorbike crash resulting in brain trauma.
Local Focus: Making music to 'achieve the insane'
How teaming up with a local musician lets Brent Eyskens live his musical dreams.
Local Focus: Cancer doesn't stop, so fundraising dancers won't either
A Rhythm and Lines fundraiser in Gisborne will feature 3 hours of non-stop line dancing.
Local Focus: Dumplings tea and CCP
La Fiesta activities include classes on cooking, papermaking, music, art and wellbeing.
Local Focus: The blind women who bonded through surfing
Meet the best friends who surf together but have never seen each other.
Local Focus: Colour for Cross St
Community initiative to make Whanganui route more people-friendly in the short term.
'Fight mum' - I could hear my boys while in a coma
"I wasn't ready to go, I wasn't going without a fight."
Local Focus: Live at Lads for the kids
Lads brewery fundraising for Starship Children's Hospital with live band this Saturday.
Local Focus: It's like MMA with swords
The Tauranga Titans are exponents of medieval armoured combat.
Focus Live: State of emergency declared in Buller
February 10 2022 A state of emergency has been declared in Buller and people are being forced to evacuate after a deluge of rain on the already soaked West Coast.
West Coast downpour: Residents given all-clear
February 5 2022 Westport residents have been given the all clear to go home, after heavy rain forced them from their homes.
Focus Live: Buller district mayor gives update on the West Coast downpour
February 4 2022 Buller district mayor Jamie Cleine said heavy rain is expected to pass through overnight and ease to just passing showers by tomorrow afternoon.
Focus Live: Mayor announces Westport evacuations with worst rain to come
February 4 2022 Buller district mayor Jamie Cleine has announced partial evacuations for areas of Westport that are at risk from flooding, with a severe rainstorm set to hit the West Coast today.
Local Focus: Hawke's Bay community may lose its water under new rules
Raupunga fears for its water supply but Government says new rules are not finalised.
Local Focus: Band school creating national talent
Musician Ricky Boyd is producing up and coming artists in Tairāwhiti.
Local Focus: Ocean sports are just a Friday Float away
Accessible water sports for people with disabilities on offer at Mount Maunganui.
Hawke's Bay drone racers looking for new members
The Hawke's Bay Drone Racing Club is trying to get its new club off the ground.
Local Focus: Accessible hotspots 'a game-changer for disabled people's lives'
Tauranga City Council invests $4 million to improve access to local facilities.
Local Focus: City heritage wins cash support
Whanganui's Heritage Grant Fund strategy is helping to spruce up historic sites.
Local Focus: Andrews sells car for Games dream
Gisborne judoka Sydnee Andrews on fundraising mission to get to Olympic Games.
Local Focus: Everesting Manutahi Hill
Manutahi Hill Ruatorea, bringing arts and history to life
Kaimaumau blaze continues to burn
The Kaimaumau fire has been burning in the Far North for over 30 days. Video / FENZ
Local Focus: Shepherdess making connections
Shepherdess magazine is connecting rural women.
Local Focus: Rewinding at Ongaonga
Ongaonga Museum shines a light on the days when the small town boomed.
Local Focus: Another love book for Rotorua's Sharma
Vishal Sharma is raising funds to write his third book about Rotorua.
Local Focus: Napier's heavenly jewel
The Hawke's Bay Holt Planetarium is an all-weather starry experience for all the family.
Local Focus: Radio Control Car Club roars into 2022
Bay of Plenty Radio Control Car Club set to benefit from future TECT Park upgrades.