Four of New Zealand's top musical acts will feature in the Waikato Times Hamilton Gardens Art Festival in February, with a percentage of the proceeds from ticket sales going towards Hamilton Zoo's native Hochstetter's frog colony.

Hamilton artist Cherie Mellsopp has won the 2009 IHC Telecom Art Awards with a vivid green artwork made up of 1200-1500 green dots.

Last week the All Blacks gave their helping hands to provincial teams to help the standings out. It has been a very close start that even Harbour & Counties are not out of the picture yet. The Aussies put on a brave & determined show to beat the Springboks convincingly 21 – 6.

Experience paid off for Smokefreerockquest entrants this year, with four of the six national finalists announced today having been in previous national finals.