The Taupo Motorcycle Club has been judged the supreme club in the Waikato district winning the 'Club of the Year' Award at the recent Waikato Sports Awards.

Competition for a slice of the Government's $1.5 billion ultra-fast fibre broadband fund is heating up with the launch of a Waikato-based fibre consortium.

The Local Government Commission (LGC) must review the proposed Super City ward boundaries to ensure there is greater equality in representation between wards, ARC Chairman Mike Lee said today.

"Super City wards need to be roughly even in terms of voting power.

Water Safety New Zealand (WSNZ) has released drowning statistics for the month of November. There were six drownings for the month. The five year average (2004-08) for November is 10 deaths.

The November toll is down from the excessively high October toll of 15 drowning deaths.

Residents of the Coromandel are being urged to be alert for severe thunderstorm warnings, rapidly rising river levels and surface flooding as heavy rain hits the region today and overnight.

The National Distribution Union will for the first time publicly release details of The Warehouse's "Wal-Mart" style employment plans at stopwork meetings in Auckland this Wednesday 2 December.

By Mark Geenty of NZPA

London, Nov 30 NZPA - You know the rugby job description's getting ridiculous when you're reduced to passing the ball from a mass of bags and jerseys, or a tyre inner tube.

Innovative farmers got a big 'good on you' from the Green Party today.

A website featuring sustainable farm practices was launched at Parliament by Green Party MP Jeanette Fitzsimons.

The Agriculture Industry Training Organisation's top poultry graduate of 2009 has some advice for anyone considering studying agriculture - "learn as much as you can."

The rural property market is a slow slog for sellers, with cashed-up buyers thin on the ground and differing price expectations, First National Group's quarterly rural survey shows.