Ohakune — One of New Zealand’s most popular winter tourist destinations has mobilised more than 300 campervans, creating 1200 new tourist beds to help meet accommodation shortfalls as it heads into its peak season.

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Ohakune — Police are now treating the death of nine year-old Antony Christensen as suspicious.

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Ohakune — The 2012 Ruapehu Cycle Classic will not be taking place this year.

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Ohakune — Elite riders Roman van Uden and Louis Crosby have confirmed their entries for the NZ Bike Magazine Ruapehu Cycle Classic next month.

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Ohakune — At approximately 5.25pm on Saturday, 14 January a man was struck and killed by a northbound train about 500 metres north of the Ohakune Railway Station.

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Ohakune — Ruapehu Cycle Classic Race Directors, Matt and Tania Tuck, are pleased to announce Claymore Partners as Presenting Sponsor of their 2012 event.

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Ohakune — Organisers of the Ruapehu Cycle Classic are excited to welcome Garmin on board as sponsor for their 2012 event.

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Ohakune — Organisers of the Ruapehu Cycle Classic are pleased to announce that the Child Cancer Foundation will be the event’s official charity for 2012.

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Ohakune — Ohakune's famous carrot is sporting a new look in support of the All Blacks.

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Ohakune — Ohakune’s famous carrot is sporting a new look in support of the All Blacks.

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Ohakune — The iconic Ohakune giant carrot that features in tourist photographs all over the world is scheduled for a makeover.

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Ohakune — Police are hailing the weather and good event management as factors leading to a relatively quiet and trouble-free Mountain Mardi Gras.

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Ohakune — The event touted as “the great little race”, the Bianchi Ruapehu Cycle Classic, will reach new heights in 2011 and promises to be a spectacular display of cycling.

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Ohakune — Police are investigating an aggravated robbery at the Rendezvous Dairy, Ohakune this morning (Tuesday, 25 January).

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Ohakune — A man who died during a motorbike trail ride event near Ohakune at the weekend has been named as Damian Mark Ansell, aged 29 from Hamilton.

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Ohakune — On 15 January 2011 the annual Dessert Storm motor bike trail ride event was held in the Karioi Forest near Ohakune.

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Ohakune — Two people escaped without injury when their Cessna aircraft flipped while landing near the Ohakune airstrip this morning.

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Ohakune — Tenders are being sought for an upmarket boutique lodge near Ohakune as the first mortgagee calls time on the property.

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Ohakune — Prime Minister John Key officially opened the first stage of the 200-kilometre Ruapehu to Whanganui New Zealand Cycle Trail project at Old Coach Road, Ohakune today.

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Ohakune — The opening of a section of the 200km Cycleway trail from Ohakune to Whanganui gives a hint of what’s to come — a network of cycle trails that will connect some of our most picturesque countryside to our towns and cities, the Green Party said today.

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Ohakune — Misuse of alcohol and binge drinking yet again marred a well organised Mountain Mardi Gras in Ohakune at the weekend.

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Ohakune — As Ohakune prepares for the arrival of around 8,000 people for the annual Mountain Mardi Gras, Police are urging visitors to the area to have fun but stay safe.

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