Lucy Cooper

Eketāhuna might not be the first place that springs to mind as a late-night Christmas shopping destination, but a small group of retailers is looking to change that.

One of the first recipients of a new education scholarship programme says the $10,000 award is “a massive weight off my shoulders”.

If your goal is to ‘eat, drink and be merry' this Christmas it might pay to shop around.

Wairarapa hairdressers are welcoming the news that the regulations governing the salon industry are due for “a buzz cut”.

A Greytown man is struggling to get his head around how more than 70% of Wairarapa patients waiting for elective surgery are being treated within four months.

One man's offer to help an elderly neighbour tackle a stray cat has led to frustration and concern that the SPCA is abandoning common sense in favour of “absolutely ridiculous” regulations.

Lucy Cooper A recommendation to introduce greater flexibility around qualifications needed by teaching staff in the Early Childhood

A Wairarapa theatre company is looking forward to being firmly “on the road back” next year with work to extend its studio space scheduled to start in March.

A navy patrol boat gifted by Australia to Fiji has sustained damage during docking, just six months after a similar vessel provided by Australia to the Pacific Island nation ran aground and was decommissioned.

In the past five years the demand for services for children in Wairarapa diagnosed with a disability or developmental delay is increasingly unable to be met.