Taupō Winter Festival organiser Nicola de Lautour, Drop Zone owner Jamie Keehan and Drop Zone general manager Louisa Redward celebrate the return of the popular midwinter event. Photo: Dan Hutchinson

In a finger-like branch of Lake Ohakuri the water is as green as the grassy paddocks surrounding it.

The Taupō Association Football Club has been given $10,000 for new uniforms.

A new commercial vehicle safety centre in Taupō is now operating.

Guthrie Bowron hosted the most recent Business After 5.

Thousands of hunters are heading for the hills in the central North Island over Easter weekend.

For some time now the big truck parking in town overnight is nothing less than a nightmare.

With the price of fuel out the gate, is it the electric vehicle’s time in the sun? We take a look under the hood.‍

A Taupō entrepreneur is hopeful an aviation breakthrough will slash fuel consumption by 30%.

Taupō is hosting two big golf tournaments, kicking off a new national, three-event golf series — the Entelar Group Invitational, plus hosting the TORO New Zealand Speedgolf Open.

With the volatility of the conflict in Iran developing daily as to how far it will escalate or not, its early days yet to determine the long term effects, certainly we’re feeling it at the fuel pump right now.

Some good news is sprouting from the fire-damaged Tongariro National Park with ecologists discovering an abundance of a threatened plant species.