Kawerau

Māori place names can help reclaim the “history of our whakapapa”, an environmental planning expert told a hearing on Whakatāne District Council’s new road naming policy.

Mill decarbonisation 'equivalent to removing over 2200 cars from the road'.

Mayor Faylene Tunui agreed the volume of reform, combined with a decline of trust in Government, was most difficult from a local governance perspective.

Kawerau school principal Ripeka Lessels says the town is suffering the highest levels of poverty she has seen in her lifetime.