Tributes are flowing for a teen who was killed when a motorbike crashed into a concrete barrier in Wellington.

Fire crews battled for two fraught hours to cut free a panicked horse.

Ngati Kahungunu protesters winning their battle to reclaim a South Wairarapa dairy farm resonated strongly with readers online.

This picture is of the banner (or masthead) of the Maori language newspaper Te Puke Ki Hikurangi which was first published in Papawai (just outside of Greytown) in December 1897