The decision remains in the balance on whether to toll motorists from Wairarapa to Palmerston North almost $9 per day to use the new highway.
South Wairarapa District Council's Martinborough headquarters is being slammed as a place of damp and decay with leaks, fungus and airborne toxic mould.
And South Wairarapa dog owners are on high alert after a series of suspicious poisonings in the area over several months.
Editor of the Wairarapa Times-Age, Piers Fuller.