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Local Focus: Tarawera's honeysuckle trail
Japanese honeysuckle is beautiful and sweet-smelling, but deadly to native bush.
Fun in the sun for whānau in Rotorua’s East for next 10 weeks
Rotorua's East Side residents are being encouraged to go to their local parks.
Migrant families embrace Kiwi Christmas
The Bunne-Namdaris, Arpanaeis, Calderons and Iwasakis will be celebrating a Kiwi Christmas
Rotorua's SPCA is already at capacity, but is bracing for a summer influx
Rotorua's SPCA is at capacity, and is expecting an influx of animals over summer.
Local Focus: Fence aims to keep pest in Whakarewarewa Forest
Wallabies are being kept from spreading into the Waikato by a 12.5 kilometre fence.
Local Focus: Rotorua Heritage Week impacts our future
Rotorua Library's Heritage Week dug into the past and shaped the future.
Local Focus: The doors are still closed, but Rotorua Museum is open to suggestions
"They're our stories, they're their stories, so let's tell them." - Clark Pirika.
Local Focus: Rising stars face the music - 'Our work is going to pay off'
Aria's returned for their 75th birthday in the Sir Howard Morrison Performing Arts Centre.
Local Focus: Pushing Play in the Bay
Sport New Zealand are walking the walk, getting wet and celebrating Play Week.
Local Focus: QE Health gears up for a new beginning
Rotorua's QE Health celebrates 80 years of service, and prepares for the next 80.
Local Focus: Chuffed! Online voucher system gains momentum
James Fitzgerald was hit hard by Covid, now he's shifting the landscape of gift giving.
Local Focus: Walter Bakkenes' World of Wonder
Rotorua Museum's single biggest art collection - works by a little-known Dutch painter.
Local Focus: Crossroads for Rotorua Motors
The Rotorua Vintage and Veteran Car Club is working for the future of historic cars.
Local Focus: Hotrods and Hogs
A two-wheeled traveller has been revving up Rotorua's roads for a good cause.
Local Focus: Calling all creatures great and small
West Rotorua's St Barnabas church is opening doors to worshippers on two feet or four.
Local Focus: New Brooklands mural unveiled
Watch: The mural was inspired and designed by local tamariki.
Local Focus: Ukulele club now a confidence-building social hub
Rotorua ukulele club is a music hub and social club all in one.
Local Focus: Who's got the voting vibes?
Voting for Rotorua mayor and councillors is underway and closes at noon on Sat, October 8.