Bob Stiles News Today

Rotorua school principals are concerned their schools will not be able to support burgeoning student numbers from new housing developments in the city.

Nine new Kāinga Ora projects that will see 29 homes built in Rotorua ’s Ōwhata suburb in the next two years are part of plans revealed to residents of the...

This column is dedicated to acknowledge examples of positives that express the community spirit of Columbus – our town.

Hundreds more children are expected in two Rotorua suburbs as social and affordable housing build programmes ramp up but the Ministry of Education has no...

    David L. Jarrett, 83, of Murphy, devoted husband, father, grandfather, friend and U.S.

'It’s about being calm and accepting them as they are'

East Tennessee boaters can sympathize with the Suez fiasco | Sam Venable Sam Venable Pity the captain and owners of the giant freighter Ever Given.  It was bad enough that their ship got wedged in the Suez Canal in late March. They also had to bear the brunt of 100,000 jokes worldwide. And for a truckload of salt into this festering wound, now they’ve been slapped with a $1 billion tab for getting unstuck.  Anyone who’s ever been stranded on the impounded waters of the Tennessee River —...