No need for pay-to-play with new Pahiātua sports club
Te Koha Sports Club handles costs collectively, with pay-what-you-can fees and fundraising to ensure struggling families can play sport.
Summer crunch salad
This salad is best served chilled straight from the fridge so to keep the crunch factor.
Roasted chicken & grapes with buttered saffron rice
During cooking, the sweet and salty juices of this dish combine with the onion to create a rich sauce.
From New York City to back-country Manawatū
Home buyers get on the ladder with a run-down church in the Ruahine Ranges.
Zucchini & mozzarella bake
Eggplant Parmigiana was the inspiration for this dish, that uses zucchini slices instead.
Sauteed zucchini with spaghetti & feta
Via a slow sautee in olive oil, courgettes sweeten and soften wonderfully.
Hapuku curry with coconut, ginger and lemongrass
Follow up this light and delicate Vietnamese-style fish curry with a cool coconut sago pudding – perfect summer food.
Olive oil and peach squares
This vegan and refined sugar-free recipe from Jordan Rondel will also work well with many other fruits and berries.
World War II veteran to become centenarian
In wartime, Clive Meddings lived off four cups of water a day and experienced yellow jaundice. Now he says his 100th birthday is "just another day".
Fish with cos, tartare and crispy capers
Tartare sauce and fresh fish is a combo that's hard to beat. Add salty crispy capers to knock it out of the park.
Crudo with chilli, lemon and parsley oild
No cooking required when you're landed with a fresh catch of fish.
Manawatū shearer convicted for attacking partner and step-daughter
Joseph Simeon will serve five months' home detention for swinging ex-partner by hair and kicking her daughter.
Prawn cocktail
Elevate that guilty pleasure with a few ingenious ingredients and the biggest tiger prawns you can find.
Al pastor with pineapple salsa
These shepherd-style pork tacos are ideal for hot Kiwi summers. Just give yourself a bit of time to let the meat marinate.
Strawberry and peach shortcake tart
Served warm or cold with runny cream, strawberry and peach shortcake is easy to put together and makes the most of summer's sweet harvest.
Strawberries on toast
With a sweet or savoury option, what better way to celebrate summer than with this delightful and unexpected combination.
Trolling a hundred years of floating hotels
If you want to lambast a cruise ship when it’s down, then TV One has the programme for you.
Roasted baby carrots with tarragon nasturtium butter
Do go lightly on the tarragon here, as it can be overpowering in excess.
Sesame broccoli with tahini lemon dressing
This is one of my favourite dressings to go with the lightly steamed green vege.
Beetroot, hazelnuts & goat cheese
This combination is quite fabulous and perfect as a side for either a festive meal or a summer holiday gathering.
Nectarine trifle
When you're a few eggnogs in and it's time for Christmas pudding assembly, the trifle really comes into its own.
Look inside cruise liner luxury lacks bite
Where's the food? Inside the QE Hotel is like a sound check but no concert, foreplay but no seduction.
Lemon curd roulade
If you want to get a delicious practice run in before the big day, this recipe is something else and definitely the one to trial.
Hazelnut & Fig Panforte
Serve thin slices with coffee after festive feasting, or cut into thick wedges and wrap with brown paper and twine for an edible Christmas gift.
Why these Florentine Caramels are the perfect Christmas sweet treat
Handy to have on hand to serve after a meal or with afternoon tea, they can also be wrapped up nicely as gift for this season of giving.
Summer photo competition returns
Enter your summer pictures and be in with a chance to win a new camera.
Designer and artist Johnson Witehira on his historic apology design
The true essence of Māori life and experience might finally start to come to the fore in Stuff’s journalism, says Witehira.
One dead after single-car crash in Whanganui, SH4 partly closed
Sweeping review of prison system called for after inmate's death
Mako Thompson extends lead at Super 6s in Palmerston North
Manawatū-Tararua highway to build up local businesses
Student numbers close to target
Murder trial witness keeps mouth shut
Disabilities don't deter cyclist
Palmerston North's growing pains kick in
No changing room remains bugbear for community centre users
Chopper called to serious Horowhenua crash
'Extra time' with crash survivor cherished
Defence rent rise remains despite concerns
People desperate to get into Horowhenua housing market despite rising prices