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The Hawke's Bay Community Fitness Centre Trust is excited to announce the extension of the Royston Health Trust Learn to Swim and Water Safety Programme for children across Hawke's Bay. Following the resounding success of the initial pilot in 2023 ...

The acceleration of cloud computing adoption across New Zealand businesses has transformed operations to enhance efficiency, scalability and innovation; but this digital transformation has also brought into sharp focus the vast number of businesses lagging behind in ...

The Wānaka A&P Show welcomed more than 44,000 people to its 87th event at the weekend. Organisers of the anticipated annual Show – which is renowned as one of the South Island’s biggest agricultural and pastoral events – were thrilled ...

Aotearoa’s largest food rescue organisation KiwiHarvest, is focused on meeting demand as research from the Ministry of Health* reveals that the number of Kiwi children experiencing food insecurity has seen the largest year-on-year jump in over a decade. ...

New Zealand’s most extreme religious cult, Gloriavale, and the true stories of people attempting to break free, are the subject of a brand-new docuseries – Escaping Utopia – screening this March on TVNZ. In a worldwide premiere, screening across ...

Some of the world’s top surf lifesaving athletes will be soon be heading to Tauranga for the country’s biggest surf lifesaving event. The 2024 New Zealand Surf Lifesaving Championships provide surf lifeguards with the opportunity to compete against each ...

Concerns about high interest rates, poor commodity prices and excessive red tape are weighing heavily on farmers, but rural confidence has risen from last year’s record lows. Federated Farmers’ latest Farm Confidence Survey shows there’s been ...

Today, health care workers in Canterbury Waitaha will protest the ongoing, almost eight-year delay in the payment of their holiday pay and other leave owed to them. At 12 noon, members of New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki ...

As anticipation of the 13th World Choir Games continues to build, the spotlight falls on the star-studded team behind the creative elements in the Games’ massive Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Over 250 choirs have now registered for the event, ...

Report from RNZ Principals are warning that the $107 million a year to maintain school buildings is not enough and new classrooms are making the problem worse. Wellington East Girls’ College principal Gael Ashworth told RNZ the upkeep costs for the school’s recently constructed main block exceeded its maintenance funding by tens of thousands of […]

ASB has today dropped its fixed home lending rates for the third time in two weeks. Its six-month term has dropped 10 basis points from 7.39% to 7.29%, while the one-year term has reduced by 5 basis points to 7.24%. ASB’s two-year mortgage rate has also ...

A 67-year-old man has been charged with murder, following the death of a man at a Hereford Street, Christchurch property last night. Police were called to the property just after 10pm yesterday, to reports of a man having been stabbed. The 22-year-old ...

The Thoracic Society is saddened by the repeal of New Zealand’s world-leading smokefree legislation. Passed under urgency, the New Zealand public and healthcare experts alike were not given due process on the repeal of all three critical components ...

Otago firefighters are tackling wildfires in two rural areas of the Waitaki District, which were both reported shortly after midnight. The first is in the Nenthorn Area, about 30km from Middlemarch, and the second fire is burning in the Earthquakes area ...

The award-winning C ARTS digital online programme of performance and creative work comes to the Dunedin Fringe, New Zealand in March 2024, with a handpicked selection from the full C ARTS programme. The selection for C ARTS Dunedin Fringe season this ...

Scientists are collecting environmental samples such as bird faeces in a research project aimed at understanding how and where avian influenza and other potentially devastating viruses could impact Aotearoa New Zealand as the highly infectious H5N1 ...

<img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2403/5b8fa99bf4a566539c80.jpeg" width="720" height="405"> Green Fireball A meteorite came through the roof of a house in Ellerslie back in 2004. It bounced off the couch, ...

Is banning fizzy drinks helping kids to make choices? Or removing choice?

Press Release – Greater Wellington Regional Council Community views on whether the Regional Council’s constituency arrangements are fair and effective are being sought to help inform a Representation Review. The six-yearly review helps council determine the best way to serve the region’s diverse communities. The primary measure for determining fair representation under the Local Electoral […]

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The track to Cathedral Cove has been closed for over a year. DOC says that the track is impassable, and is so dangerous that it will take years to reopen it (until the Minister got involved, and now they are saying it may open by this summer). But locals in Hahei have told me that […]

Press Release – Oceania Football Confederation Poor weather yesterday might have meant that Henderson Eels were made to wait a little longer to make their OFC Womens Champions League debut than theyd hoped, but their patience was rewarded with a 2-0 win over Avatiu FC in Honiara. A heavy … Poor weather yesterday might have […]

Press Release – Education Partnership and Innovation Trust We welcome four new Trustees to our board – Debbie Burrows, Luella Linaker, Rob McIntosh, and Tim Gander who join existing Trustees Lorraine Mentz, Hana ORegan and Liz Gibbs. Co-Chair Lorraine Mentz said the new appointments to the Education … We welcome four new Trustees to our […]

Press Release – New Zealand Fringe Festival The New Zealand Fringe Festival — the largest multi-disciplinary arts festival in Aotearoa — came to a close with a bang in Wellington on Saturday. NZ Fringe acts as a platform for both emerging and established artists to offer their events to the Pōneke public and develop capabilities […]