WHAT’S ON…Join the Midday Concert on August 7 at St Andrew's Church, 91 Tītīraupenga Street  to celebrate the art of storytelling through music with the New Zealand String Quartet. 

A Co-Governance committee in Tūrangi is to be scrapped under new Government legislation. 

A new suspension bridge over the Tongariro River is taking shape with almost 70 tonnes of concrete poured and towers set to be erected. 

Taupō Racing Club is gearing up for its biggest race meeting to date on August 16, with Stud Day headlined by the $100,000 Chittick Family Fillies Classic — the club's first-ever listed race. 

The Sika deer population in the Kaweka and Kaimanawa Forest Parks is to be managed differently to the wider conservation estate. 

A trio of kind-hearted Taupō people have squashed and sold hundreds of thousands of cans over the past few years, raising about $19,000 to help brighten the lives of children in need.