Eric Gerritsen was fined $115,000 for impeding the WorkSafe's investigation into the collapse of the "Mammoth Slide", which left a number of children injured.

It wasn't his heart attack last year that made Peter Tearle go easy on pumping iron - the 90-year-old blames the pneumonia instead.

Rescuers failed to refloat a whale last night which stranded on a South Wairarapa beach.

Wairarapa's international tourist figures in February almost doubled on the same period last year