The Department of Conservation’s Director-General, Penny Nelson, has granted Whakapapa Holdings Limited (WHL) a 10-year concession to operate Whakapapa ski field.

Taupō Hospital will be used to train rural doctors, which could help mitigate a chronic staffing shortage.

Footage of Taupō woman Louisa Redward’s spectacular, unplanned dismount from a rope swing, that saw her land 50 metres down a bank has gone viral on social media.

Police are seeking photos of a Russian stuntman who went missing in 2002, in the hope the image can help identify partial remains located at Motutere earlier this year.

Thousands of people stood together in the Taupō Anzac Day Dawn Service this morning as the district began a day of commemorations.