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Taranaki metal fabricators Superior Stainless has bought the subsidiary site owned by Christchurch-based MHM Automation.

Retirement giant clocks 31% quarterly sales boost: death, illness not main driver 10 Jan, 2021 11:59 PM 5 minutes to read Two-bedroom Summerset villas at The Dunes, Papamoa Beach. Photo / George Novak A listed retirement business has clocked a 31 per cent sales rise in the latest quarter. The company saw strong trade in three areas of the country, driven largely by new sales. Illness or death of residents wasnt the main reason for the strong resales - one of the grimmer facts...

Wednesday, 30 December, 2020 - 14:31 From central New Plymouth to Bell Block, to the TSB Festival of Lights, local coffee-drinkers are switching to a new easy takeaway coffee habit this summer. Four cafes are the first to join the Again Again reusable cup lending scheme locally, with support from NPDC as it continues its push towards Zero Waste 2040. Again Again lends member cafes food-grade stainless steel cups, reusable silicone lids and reusable or recyclable paper sleeves. Cafe custom...

SIMON OCONNOR/Stuff Irene and Garry Hinz have been lighting up their Nadine Stanton Dr home since they built it four years ago. In the week before Christmas they play music in their garage as extra entertainment. Every year since building their Bell Block home Garry and Irene Hinz have decorated it in Christmas Lights. They do it for the kids. SIMON OCONNOR/Stuff The Hinzes have spent about $2000 a year since moving into their home building up their light collection. Before moving to Nadine St...

Andy Jackson/Stuff A two-car crash occurred at a Bell Block intersection on Saturday night, leaving two people with minor injuries. Two people sustained minor injuries in a two-car crash north of New Plymouth on Saturday night. The crash occurred around 10.35pm at the intersection of Mangati and Devon roads in Bell Block. The two injured were transported to Taranaki Base Hospital by ambulance in a minor condition, a St John spokeswoman said. A passing motorist reported the crash to emergency...

Electric vehicles for NPDC fleet$1m Te Korowai o Tane: planting indigenous species fund$2m Overview What should be in and what should be out of our approximately $3b ($2b of operating spending $900m of capital spending) 10-year work programme? That’s the massive question your Mayor and Councillors are mulling over this summer. Over the next six months we’ve got a proposed 10-year work programme to confirm. We’ve had early conversations with the public called the Top Ten Kōrero with mor...

Matt Rilkoff/Stuff Commuter traffic is in gridlock throughout New Plymouth following a crash at the intersection of Mangorei and Northgate on Tuesday afternoon. Traffic in New Plymouth was brought to a standstill after a car hit a lamppost at the city’s northern entrance on Tuesday. The crash happened at the intersection of Northgate and Mangorei Rd just before 4pm and created gridlock chaos throughout the city for the third time in two months. SIMON OCONNOR/Stuff A vehicle crashed into a li...