New Plymouth News

New Plymouth District councillor Maurice Betts is trading in his career as a financial adviser to pursue a passion for painting.

CITY GRIDLOCK: Traffic is regularly bumper-to-bumper outside New Plymouth Girls' High School on a week-day morning at 8.30am. The $16 million project aimed at unlocking New Plymouth city's traffic gridlock will begin early next year, says the New Zealand Transport Agency.

A stolen car with a 15-year-old at the wheel became airborne outside the New Plymouth police station before smashing into the city's beloved Honeyfield Fountain.

The pain is not physical. It is one felt in friendships lost and hatred found for his outspoken opposition to the design of New Plymouth's Len Lye Centre and his efforts to stop it.