New Zealand Newspapers

Landslide cordon lifted

Cordons surrounding the Mount Maunganui campsite where six people were killed by a landslide were lifted yesterday morning, but Mauao remains closed for the foreseeable future. Part of the cordon around the site was supposed to be lifted earlier...

Water works: A guide to home filtration

TAP OR WHOLE HOUSE Tap: Fllters water at one location, usually the sink, via benchtop units, undersink filters, or filter jugs. Suit renters, those on a budget, or people who only want filtered water for drinking and cooking. Whole house: Installed...

Mum walks to thank Starship for saving baby

AGisborne mother is to pound the pavement next month in a grateful bid to raise money for “the superheroes” who saved her baby’s life. Ariel Kururangi has joined the Starship Foundation’s Kilometres for Kids virtual challenge to support the Auckland...

Dark sky reserve put at risk

Wairarapa’s dark sky reserve – and the multimillion-dollar tourism economy it supports – could be under threat from the biggest shake-up of the country’s planning laws in a generation. In December, Resource Management Act (RMA) Reform Minister Chris...

STILL TICKING

Time has been influential for Rotorua local Bill Groves since 1926. For nearly 80 years, the former watchmaker helped keep other people on schedule, repairing watches and clocks until three years ago. His work ranged from delicate wristwatches to...

BISHOPDALE

86A Gardiners Road Price: On application Open home: February 8, 4pm-4.30pm Agent: Cameron Bailey 027 555 7079 Harcourts eolu Licenseu Agent REAA 2008 Designed with comfort and practicality in mind, this sunny, warm, and dry home enjoys a desirable...

A global visionary

The life and art of Sir Richard Taylor

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Water works: A guide to home filtration

TAP OR WHOLE HOUSE TAP: Fllters water at one location, usually the sink, via benchtop units, undersink filters, or filter jugs. Suit renters, those on a budget, or people who only want filtered water for drinking and cooking. Whole house: Installed...

Medal-winning carriage features at NZ’s new ‘national’ museum

Peter Lyttle wanted a place to store, preserve, and show the originality of his rare and historic horse-drawn carriage collection, so he funded and built a new start-of-the-art museum. The 74-year-old’s “vision” becomes a reality today with the...

High-octane action out at Oreti Beach

Held annually as part of the Burt Munro Challenge, this year’s racing featured household names such as defending champion Jonny Racz and Burt Munro Challenge great Kevin Ryan, who competes in every event. Rider numbers were up on previous years with...

Quiz

1 English singer Rachel Agatha Keen is known professionally by what name? 2 Nazare´ , Portugal, is a mecca for competitors in which sport? 3 Plantar fasciitis can cause a lot of pain, where in your body? 4 Camp David, the US presidential retreat, is...

A Waitangi welcome

Visitors to Whakatū Marae were greeted with a hongi after the pōwhiri during the commemorations for Waitangi Day in Nelson yesterday. Te Rā o Waitangi ki Whakatū 2026 was held at the marae with a strong crowd in attendance.

Love, set, match

Couples who court

‘I had to stay alive for 10 days’

Northland midwife Denise McCormack is grateful to be alive after first surviving a heart attack, then being faced with an impossible decision because of the country’s health system. McCormack, who has a family history of cardiac disease, is speaking...

Property prices on the rise

Whanganui property prices are climbing and they could hit 2022’s market peak later this year. The district’s highest average price was $614,000 in March 2022. Oneroof editor Owen Vaughan said the Whanganui average price had risen 2.9%, more than all...

A global visionary

When Sir Richard Taylor and wife Tania Rodger won one of their first big accolades, the pair got to travel to Auckland and, for the first time, stay in a hotel. The year was 1990, and the recognition was for best contribution to design for Peter...

At a glance

The Canterbury Glen Eagles will be gunning for a fourth Superstock Teams Champs title in a row this weekend and spearheading their challenge is a driver from Palmerston North. It’s teams champs weekend again and Palmerston North will be packed today...

Fish foretold river collapse

Every year, in the waning heat of summer, the Rakaia River reliably flashed silver with salmon. Hundreds would cast lines into the river’s milky, glacial flow, hunting for the heaviest fish and the prestige that came with it. The Rakaia fishing...

▮ Heckles and boos greet politicians,

“Did you bring the KFC?” Prime Minister Christoper Luxon faced heckles as he spoke yesterday at Waitangi’s Treaty Grounds, where he said the nation could “manage our differences without tearing the house down”. Luxon, using cue cards, said the...

“Big Summer Sounds” Manfeild LIVE proves Feilding can throw a concert

I’ve been to a lot of events at Manfeild over the years, motorsport, expos, community days, but standing there on Saturday night with thousands of people singing along under a golden Manawatū sunset, it felt like something had shifted. Manfeild LIVE...

Waste site dumped

Mobile homes have one fewer designated public place to dump liquid waste in Gisborne after a volunteer-run facility closed last week. The public waste station on Awapuni Rd has been run by a volunteer since 2009, but they say it’s time for the council...

Living with cancer

“I’m living with advanced breast cancer – I’m not dying of it.” That’s the mindset Waikato grandmother Diana Wood lives by as she faces a disease many people still see as a death sentence. The 67-year-old is living with stage four breast cancer, but...

INSIDE: Your Waitangi weekend weather

Your Waitangi weekend weather

Driver behaviour key to reducing our road toll

Northland’s road toll dropped last year, but with the number of deaths the fifthhighest in the country — and almost 40% from not wearing seatbelts — far more needs to be done, a road safety campaigner said. And while almost half the deaths are in the...

With Editor Lifestyle Magazines Frances Morton

There’s something quietly thrilling about a familiar face walking back into a familiar place. Shortland Street delivers exactly that with the return of Rachel McKenna (played by Angela Bloomfield, story p4). It isn’t just a nostalgic treat for...

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HOKOWHITU

Price by negotiation Agents: Stu Fleming 027 444 1594 Lynysey Elliott 027 446 2886 ray hite Palmerston North Licensey Agent rEAA 2008 Tucked away in a sought after location, enjoy sun-splashed living, four bedrooms, a study area, and two...

Look! Up in the sky!

James Owen might just have the best job in Kiwi aviation. His title is Standards and Training Project Pilot for Air New Zealand’s NextGen Aircraft Programme. His dayto-day is taking to the skies in cutting-edge planes which represent the future of the...

Island Bay - 17 Southern Cross Crescent

SUN, SPACE AND IMMACULATELY MAINTAINED 4 A perfect family home, spread across 166sqm of generous versatile family living. Offering up to five bedrooms or four with a separate living / rumpus room for the children. After 40 cherished years this...

New Zealand Walk: Greytown to Woodside a popular walk or bike

The Greytown to Woodside Trail in the Wairarapa, is a short walk that feels much bigger than its numbers. On a bright autumn morning I set out from Greytown with nothing more ambitious than a daypack, decent shoes and a curiosity about what lay along...

Art Under The Bridge:

Masterton was where Matt Turner found his footing as an artist – and where he dreamed of giving back to those in need. His life was sadly cut short, but the artworks he left behind are set to make a lasting difference for the town’s homeless...

Precious gift unites generations

A mystery gift is helping a Waikato youngster carve out her future. Hamilton’s Whitiora School recently featured in a TVNZ Seven Sharp bulletin about the its Tipu Ake carving programme run by Te Kōhao Health and taught by Whakairo Master Rei...

FROM FLUFFY TO FIERCE!

How cute snowy owl chicks grow up to become powerful predators Watch out, here I come!

STEP-BY-STEP

A storybook setting for an historic homestead in • Roses, woodlands, paths, lawns & more in • Composting on a 500sqm site in • A tree-loving octogenarian tending a 109-year-old garden • An plantsman’s picks for summer colour food grower recommends the...

ENERGY

Our cover story this issue is on installing solar power – and how many of us have been considering that for years? The attraction of installing solar power is plain to see and there’s a lot to like about it. Harnessing energy from the mighty sun feels...

Travelling: An education for the soul

Travel is more than movement from one place to another; it is a quiet education for the soul. When we travel, we step outside the routines that shape our days and enter spaces where curiosity leads and where adventure awaits. In those moments of...

STYLISH OVATION

They like what they see! The star-studded front row of Chanel’s spring/summer show boasted talents like Tilda Swinton, Charlotte Casiraghi, Vanessa Paradis and A$AP Rocky.

Good healthspecial

● Personalise your wellbeing ● Balance your blood sugar ● Build your strength at home

These airy kings

Against the odds, the magnificent albatrosses of Pukekura/ Taiaroa Head survive.

Valentine’s Day special

Date night bliss & f inding love later in life

Know-how in spades for every gardener

Quiz

1. AA Insurance temporarily stopped offering new home insurance policies in which town because of its flood risk: A) Westport; B) Whanganui; C) Waihi; or, D) Wānaka? 2. Judith Collins announced her retirement from being a politician – but what...

LOTTA FIGHT LEFT IN THIS OLD DOG

Novak Djokovic called it one of his best performances in a decade after outlasting Jannik Sinner early Saturday in a five-set marathon to set up an Australian Open final against Carlos Alcaraz. The 38-year-old Serbian rolled back the years to battle...

HOW WE TRAVEL

Because it is important for our journalists to have first-hand experience, it can be necessary to accept assistance from travel operators. However, we never promise positive coverage in return.

KARORI

Tender closing 5 February 2026 at 1pm This home immediately welcomes you with character and warmth. The main living room flows seamlessly to a deck and into the established garden beyond, a space made for relaxed entertaining, or simply listening to...

Community grapples with devastating landslides and floods

The Bay of Plenty has been left reeling after a day of extreme weather brought landslides, flooding, and chaos to the region, leaving communities shaken and emergency services stretched to their limits following 300mm of rain in just 24 hours. Rivers...

ON THE COVER

A couple make an old shed on the family farm their new home – see page 26. Photograph by Jane Ussher

AYRBURN CLASSIC – BREAKTHROUGH EVENT OF THE YEAR

The prestigious Breakthrough Event of the Year part of the International Historic Motoring Awards was presented in London on 14 November to the Royal Automobile Club Concours. The Ayrburn Classic 2025 was nominated for the award alongside Concours of...

4WD and SUV buyer’s guide

The new vehicle market in New Zealand is a 4WD buyer’s paradise. Utes and SUVs are as popular here as anywhere in the world, and our new car sales have been dominated by SUVs and 4WD utes for ages. It’s widely known that Ford’s Ranger is top dog in...

Food tastes better shared

The world has become disconnected with technology and since the pandemic we have retreated into ourselves, become more individualistic in nature and independent in status. Our life expectancy is declining with stress; our connection to how our food is...

FUN, FAST and FABULOUS!

Summer is the season to grow melons, pumpkins, cucumbers, zucchini and their flying saucer shaped cousins. Together, they are the cucurbit family and they're fun, fast and easy to grow from seed.

Many hands

Thousands of decisions go into making a magazine. Not just obvious ones like which topics we include, the people we speak to or the pictures we’ll use, but tiny ones too: that headline should go two clicks to the left and up one... yep, perfect. We...

Relaxed entertaining

Solid gold

Warm tones in a limestone spine lend this estuary-side property priceless presence.

FESTIVAL OF MOTORING

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New Year Joy

Anew year carries its own kind of unspoken promise that life can feel fresh again. This new energy isn’t something that appears automatically at midnight but rather cultivated, perhaps it’s a shift in thinking and the willingness to release what weighs...

SUMMER STYLE ESSENTIALS

CHORIZO EMPANADAS, CHIMICHURRI VERDE, CHICKEN FLAUTAS, KINGFISH PASTRAMI, PRAWN QUESADILLAS, SNAPPER CEVICHE, TUNA TOSTADA, STRAWBERRY & TOMATO SALSA, PORK KEBABS, SMACKED CUCUMBERS, STEAK LIKE TARTARE, ROASTED PRAWNS, PLUM & MANGO MOCHI, STRAWBERRY &...

FROM THE EDITOR

If you need your footy hit over summer, then watch some sevens, either live or on the box. As I write these words, we are rejoicing that both our national sevens team have, for the first time since early 2024, both won the same tournament. The All...

The smart home seller’s guide:

Selling your home now means navigating A Buyers’ market. With more properties listed than there Are Active Buyers, the power shifts. Buyers can Be more selective, And homes may take longer to sell. In this climate, your choice of real estate company...

What does the market want?

Fonterra, NZ Merino, Atkins Ranch and more weigh in on the changing customer demands and farmers’ efforts to match them

50+ HOMEGROWN RECIPES

• Vibrant salads • Outdoor cooking • Sharing plates • Dips & nibbles • Sweet treats • Cordials, mocktails & cocktails

Fonterra brands gone

Farmer shareholders have said yes to selling off iconic brands to French dairy giant.

DYNAMIC DUO

Universal Cranes recently took delivery of New Zealand’s first two 10x4 S-Ways – one rigid and one tractor unit. A factory-built configuration with competitive tare weight, fitted with Fassi cranes, they are a strong addition to the company’s...

WHAT'S INSIDE?

Rethinking the urban dream What liability law changes mean for landscapers Environmental impacts of compacted soil

Winter a strategic time to buy, sell

When the temperature drops and the days shorten, many buyers and sellers assume the property market hibernates, so they wait for spring to look or list. But for the savvy, winter offers unique opportunities for both buyers and sellers in the real...

Winter a strategic time to buy, sell

When the temperature drops and the days shorten, many buyers and sellers assume the property market hibernates, so they wait for spring to look or list. But for the savvy, winter offers unique opportunities for both buyers and sellers in the real...

Melanie Bracewell

Beyond the punchline.