Te Ururoa Flavell was the catalyst for Hone Harawira's sacking from the Maori Party. Chris Barton talks to the hammerhead from Waiariki

Police today apologised for arresting a Tokoroa woman more than five years after she lost her job when she was wrongly charged with conspiracy to commit arson and two years after the police watchdog found the investigation was botched.

For many of us, Tokoroa is a place you drive through... quickly. But the timber town has heart, and house prices to make Auckland eyes water, writes Bruce Morris.