Four young whio (blue ducks) have graduated from their early days at Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre to be released into the aviary at Tongariro National Trout Centre.
After the driest January on record, Taupō farmers were almost counting the raindrops over Waitangi weekend when the heavens opened, dropping almost 44mm of rain on the district.
Taupō truckie Bryan Smith says he's had a gutsful of Waka Kotahi's decision to reduce the speed limit on the Napier-Taupō highway to 80kmh saying it's the "ambulance at the bottom of the cliff".
A new housing project at Waimahana Marae near Taupō will breathe new life into the central North Island iwi of Ngāti Tahu-Ngāti Whaoa with an injection of almost $12.5 million to build 27 homes on
