Four more icons have gone up around Hastings city centre - celebrating people, ideas and industries with strong attachments to Hastings.

Council is reminding people that nominations for the Citizen of the Year Awards close soon on Friday 6 October 2017.

Horizons Regional Council rewarded three Palmerston North and one Whanganui student with a hands-on internship day to learn about land management and water quality this week.

Applications to the Community Health Assistance fund closed on Friday (September 22), with 37 applications received.

Are you an inventor, an innovator, a creator? Could $25,000 help turn your idea into reality?

"Our Coromandel 2017-18," our Council's annual magazine, is out now and this year's issue is packed with news and information on Council projects, event listings, local profiles, features and much, much more.

Police have arrested a male in relation to an incident in Taradale, Napier on Sunday evening.

At about 5.45pm a woman was walking along Avondale Road when she was approached by an elderly male.

The male offered her fruit and hugged her.

The NZ Transport Agency is asking the community for their views on a proposed roundabout at the intersection of State Highway 1 and Elles Road in Invercargill, to increase safety and reduce crashes at this high risk intersection.

It's a busy spring weather day across New Zealand with temperatures up to 27 degrees in Hawke's Bay, 25 in Christchurch and NW gales in Wellington gusting around 100km/h.

Here are WeatherWatch.co.nz's main New Zealand weather highlights across your Monday afternoon:

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EziBuy has teamed up with three leading New Zealand fashion designers, Andrea Moore, Storm and Yvonne Bennetti to create a limited edition collection of stylish t-shirts and tanks, which will raise money for Breast Cancer Cure (BCC).