Reserve Bank eyes up Auckland’s halo
DIGGING IN: Builders from Cornerstone Developments lay the foundations for a new apartment building on Anglesea St, Hamilton. PHOTO: Paul...
Paul Mitchell
Wintec festival kindles creative spark
Spark festival director Wendy Richdale goes over the programme with intern Olivia Mead (left) For the past 17 years...
Seminars aimed to educate the farmers
Fieldays isn’t just an opportunity for companies and inventors to get farmers’ attention, it’s also a chance for farmers to...
App idea proves to be a real live wire
An app that takes the sting out of guessing whether an electric fence is live has won its inventor the...
Winners for the Innovation Den announced
The Winners of the Fieldays Innovation Den were announced. Multiple participants emerged victorious in various categories with the winner for...
Prime Minister John Key opens Fieldays 2015
The Village Green was bustling with very important people; businessmen, farmers, politicians and diplomats from all around the world, including...
Aeronavics unveil next generation of drones
A Raglan based drone company's new products could help farmers reduce costs and discover crop diseases earlier. Aeronavics is showcasing...
Drone company flying high
Just outside Newcastle in Australia, near some of the pylons and high voltage lines that deliver power to the city,...
Onyx Studio to develop young, local theatre talent
Veteran thespians and acting teachers Brendan West and Louise Drummond at Hamilton's Meteor Theatre. A career treading the boards may...
Live: Rangiora brings home the bronze
BRONZE: Rangiora High U18 girls doubles crew, Alice Pallister and Rose McEwan, and their coach Armin Svoboda at the medal...
Rangiora set for finals
CLOSE: George Howat was exhausted after the U18 singles semi, coming in third only half a second away from relegation....
Parking attendants keep the chaos at bay
ATTENTIVE: Gate attendant John Davis has a system to tame the parking chaos at Maadi. Photo: Paul Mitchell This year's...
Auckland Grammar packs history into Maadi team tent
HISTORY: Proud Auckland Grammar mums Amanda Carter, left, Wendy Courtney, and Jo MacDonald show off the school's rowing wall of...
Rangiora girls give no quarter in quarterfinals
ALL OUT: No quarter was given by Rangiora rowers Alice Pallister and Rose McEwan in Wednesday's U18 doubles quarterfinals. The...
The pursuit of oarthenticity
MAADI MINIATURES: Oarthentic Oars owner Rob McCarthy in front of his stall at Lake Karapiro for Maadi. At least one...
Green, lean and mean Rangiora High brings its best to Maadi
Canterbury’s Rangiora High School is focusing on quality over quantity with its team for the Maadi Cup Regatta this year....
Opposition leader pays a Little visit to Wintec
STUMP SPEECH:Labour leader Andrew Little explains his policy positions to Wintec Students. Photo: Paul Mitchell. Labour leader Andrew Little popped...
Students like their Little talks
Labour leader Andrew Little paid Wintec's City Campus a visit this morning. He spent the morning meeting with faculty and...
There goes my hero
MOSHED: Anxious Waikato Independent reporter Kyra Dawson (centre), and partner Neil Piccione, eager to escape the holding pen at Mt Smart...