All set for Fieldays
For the eighth year running Wintec journalists, photographers and graphic designers will be providing a daily record of the goings...
Features
Chris Byram – the mortuary technician
My job basically is the day to day management and running of a modern day mortuary. Naturally with death being...
Hamilton artists collaborate online to market craft
For Hamilton artists, Kobi Brinkman, 67, Jack Parle, 81, and Heather Adlam, 76, anything beyond their craft is “going through...
Pacific sci-fi movie is no “ordinary” Kiwi film
Waikato film maker Julia Reynolds has embarked on her hardest cinematic venture – a Pacific sci-fi feature set 70 years...
In conversation with Browsers’ owner, Rebecca Pope
Within the last couple of years, two of Hamilton’s bookstores have closed. This comes as quite a blow to a...
Nick Atkinson – The volunteer worker
It’s early morning and outside the entrance of Waikato Hospital there is a slow procession of people walking in and...
Jayne Marshall – The information desk
From when Jayne Marshall was four, she dreamed of being Dorothy, and getting lost in the land of Oz. Sitting...
Reverend Raumiria McRobert – The chaplain
Reverend Raumiria McRobert counsels the sick and afflicted at the Waikato Hospital, sometimes in situations that she would never have...
Rangi Iti – The enquiries administrator
A gentleman walks up to Rangi Iti’s enquiries desk, “I hear you know everything!” She laughs and agrees with the...
Julie Burling – The barista
Julie Burling loves coffee so much that even as she backpacks across Greece, she will be searching for hints to...
Geneaologist captures family histories in earthquake-shattered Canterbury cemeteries
As much of Christchurch’s past lies in pieces, a Canterbury writer is in a race against time to preserve the...