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Feedback sought on SH2 median barrier option SH2. Image: Google Maps. '); } else { // } Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is seeking community feedback on a 14.2km median barrier option for State Highway 2 between Tetley Road and Esdaile Road, south of Katikati.  Regional Manager Infrastructure Delivery Jo Wilton says consultation at this stage is really important to the next steps. “We want to hear from the people who live alongside and regularly use this section of road to inform how we might shape a median barrier,” says Wilton. Between 2009 and 2018, 25 peop...

Search continues for missing four-year-old Axel was reported missing at 3pm on Tuesday. Photo: NZ Police. '); } else { // } Police and volunteers are continuing to search for a boy reported missing on foot from his Tolaga Bay home Tuesday afternoon. Axel, who is four years old, was reported missing to Police at 3pm. There has been significant police and community effort to find him this evening, including using police dogs and a helicopter, says a police spokesperson. "Police urgently want to hear from anyone who might have seen Axel or who has any information whic...

Tsunami education in school roadshow Students at Ilminster Intermediate School in Gisborne try out the tsunami wave tank. Photo. Supplied. '); } else { // } Students at Hatea-a-Rangi and Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Tokomaru in Tairāwhiti have been the first to take part in a new roadshow aimed at educating about the risks posed by a Hikurangi subduction zone earthquake and tsunami. The school roadshow has extra significance following the earthquakes and subsequent tsunami warnings that reverberated across the East Coast and the Bay of Plenty in March. Developed by ...

  Police were notified of a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Welcome Bay Rd and Ngapeke Rd at 12.29pm.     Police were notified of a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Welcome Bay Rd and Ngapeke Rd at 12.29pm.   Police say that about seven people have a range of injuries, but further information about how serious the injuries are is not yet available.   A SunLive reader reports that the crash has happened on Welcome Bay Rd near the Welcome Bay Hot Pools, with ambulances, fire trucks and police cars at the scene.     At the scene? Phone 0800 SUNLIVE or email newsro...

This weekend we remember our Anzacs - those who’ve served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations, and the contribution and suffering they’ve endured for us. We are truly grateful. Originally Anzac Day was devised to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps forces that landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25, 1915, during WW1. More than 130,000 men died: 87,000 Ottoman soldiers; 44,000 Allied soldiers, including 2779 New Zealanders. A huge toll for all countries concerned. Today we think not only of them at Gallipoli but also those who’v...