One Whakatane player is celebrating winning $333,333 with Lotto First Division, and six players from Te Puke, Taupo, Tauranga and Papamoa are celebrating each winning $8,940 in Lotto Second Divisio
Conservation leaders dedicated to saving our national icon have been recognised at the Kiwi Awards, held at the annual National Kiwi Hui in Hawkes Bay.
Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga has added the Whakatāne Airport Terminal to the New Zealand Heritage List Rārangi Kōrero as a Category 1 historic place.
Thousands of plastic bottles have been dumped on the doorstep of Whakatane District Council as nearby a hearing was held on the proposed expansion of a water bottling plant at Otakiri.
Oxfam Trailwalker will return in 2020 for what will be its fifth and final year in Whakatāne, Oxfam has announced, following which the charity’s flagship event will be moving to a new location.
