Vaccine mandates are extending into inter-school sporting events for those aged 12 and over - meaning some students will be sidelined and principals fear blowback.
We asked for your best love stories and we were treated with a wide range of entries. From the romantic and thoughtful, to the comedic and forbidden, there was a little bit of everything.
People in the Taupō district will now find it smoother to get their practical driver licences after a community grant from Taupō District Council allowing the leasing of a training car.
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.
