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Following consultation with communities on setting safe and appropriate speed limits, NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) will be changing speed limits on short sections of the state highway network across Northland and north Auckland. The focus will ...

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Celebrated author Pauline Cartwright has returned to her North Otago roots for her retirement. She shares with Ashley Smyth some of the wisdom she has gleaned from a lifetime of teaching, learning, and as the author of too many titles to count. Pauline Cartwright has been and always will be a writer. For as long as she can remember, she would put pen to paper at any opportunity. “If there was an opportunity to have a go at something in the writing field, I did … I used to write poems for t...

Northlander Ken Ferguson tracks down Greek captain who's message in a bottle he found

A message in a bottle has arrived at Ninety Mile Beach after months in the ocean.

Ken Fergusson found the bottle at Ninety Mile Beach. Photo: Supplied Contact details inside have connected the Awanui community with a Greek seafarer who has never been to New Zealand. At first fisherman Ken Fergusson thought the wine bottle was just another piece of litter when he found it last week. "Somebody would be running over it and breaking it, [I thought it would] cause a problem for peoples feet. So I stopped and picked it up and threw it on the back of my truck, got home, went to th...