Hawera, New Zealand News

Red-eyed and shaking, a South Taranaki mother wept in the dock as she was found guilty of allowing two young children to be infested with head lice over two years.

A 46-year-old man who rode his motorcycle into a kerb has been jailed for failing to give a blood sample.

Spin was the name of the game with identies from the mayor to people in the street charging the net.

Craig Daniel Murphy, 27, pleaded guilty in the Hawera District Court yesterday to being more than two times the legal limit.

Great memories: Marlborough Girls' College first deputy principal Jean Sargent is looking forward to catching up with her past students at the 50th anniversary.

SouthCare's discarded doctors say they will fill the void created by the medical centre's financial collapse and they have already started to take bookings.

Nearly 10,000 SouthCare patients have been left in limbo as the Hawera medical centre prepares to shut its doors at the end of the week.

John Ernest Huysamen, of Central Taranaki, had earlier admitted charges of unlawful sexual connection and indecent assault of a female under 12.

Allied Farmers, which kept itself alive last month through a fire sale of toxic loans, has sold its Taranaki real estate unit for $472,500, more than a quarter of the group's value by market capitalisation.