Lucy Cooper

With works ramping up on the new Selina Sutherland Hospital site and Masterton Medical's facility aiming for completion in December, a modern health

When Dame Marilyn Waring visits Wairarapa early next month it will be something of a reunion, she told the Wairarapa Times-Age

The region's mayors are at odds over the projected costs to ratepayers of amalgamation options calculated by consultants.

Photo: Supplied An ‘angel dropped from the sky' Bottled up Tackle recovery in ‘chunks'

Wairarapa farmers are being warned to prepare for the possibility of drier soils and lower rivers as El Niño, formally declared earlier this month, settles over the tropical Pacific.

A 36-year-old Featherston man has been arrested on suspicion of the “extensive theft” of copper from along the railway line between Featherston and Woodside.

Teenagers could be a key line of defence in helping people survive cardiac arrest if resuscitation techniques were included on the school curriculum, Jon Moores, Hato Hone St John's chief executive says.

Photo: Lucy Cooper / Wairarapa Times-Age Photo: Lucy Cooper / Wairarapa Times-Age Photo: Lucy Cooper / Wairarapa Times-Age

There are some foods that hold a certain magical quality for me. Cherries, lychees, oysters, my mum's corned beef pie.

Barista coffee, hot kai and a place to relax and “let your hair down” is on offer for flood-affected Wairarapa farmers at a free event in Martinborough later this month.