A local business has bought Flaxmere’s village shopping centre after 17 years of foreign ownership. Hawke’s Bay-based property development firm TW Property has taken over the 2.17ha shopping centre ...

Shaw is talking about the weed boat he drives up and down Hawke’s Bay streams releasing vegetation to increase water flow.

Veteran councillors Neil Walker and Donald McIntyre have collectively spent 41 years in the chamber shaping submissions to Parliament but at December's meeting Walker declared the council “not a ...

In 2022, the NZ initiative noted that the Working for Families system meant a family with two kids earning about $60,000 a year would get as many credits as they paid in tax, so they effectively would ...

A former Fijian prime minister has called Sitiveni Rabuka "unfit to lead the country" and "frequently inconsistent". Labour leader Mahendra Chaudhry made the comment after Rabuka did a u-turn on ...

National statistician Malama Uain Kitiona knows it's a tough ask to give that information but said it's vital for the future of Tokelau that people do so. "That's all data that it's very, very crucial ...

Te Aroha Softball club's premier women's team recently competed at Softball New Zealand's Open Women's Club Nationals, where they placed fourth. This year the team from Te Awa Kairangi (Hutt Valley) ...

The TAB offered a $150 million deal to the government in a bid to secure a lucrative online casino licence, according to ...

The major winners in the 2025 Bay of Plenty Dairy Industry Awards, Andre and Natalie Meier, have tasted success previously in the Awards and say the programme has assisted their career progression.

A highlight of the evening was the People’s Choice Award which received over 2,000 votes this year. The awards are a ...

Further, the economist considers more than counting the money going in; he also counts where the is money going out. This leads to him identifying that the total available operational spending (as ...

There is much talk in this age of heaving tech behemoths about the digital town square, where views can be aired with confidence, impunity and, at stages, disconcerting stupidity. Tech moguls such as ...