Repeated breaches of effluent discharge rules have cost a Taupō-based farming company and its boss $164,250 in fines.

Taupō was treated to three days of super rugby last week.

Andrew Wilder feels he only finally got to know his father many years after his death.

The Government will abolish all 20 District Health Boards and create a single health organisation, in a sweeping plan to centralise New Zealand’s fragmented healthcare system and end the “postcode