Marine Parade businesses who lost tens of thousands of dollars in revenue since the fatal Mauao landslide have begged Tauranga City Council for rates relief. A group of 16 hospitality business owners ...

About 650 babies are born at Whakatāne Hospital each year. It is the only hospital in the eastern Bay of Plenty, which has a ...

Summerhill near Pāpāmoa has reopened its gates to the public following the recent weather event. This year Tauranga recorded its wettest January since record-keeping began in 1910, with 408.9mm of ...

Two weeks ago, we arrived in Brisbane for a cruise and holiday break, expecting to see Brisbane City decked out with signs such as “Brisbane: Home of the 2032 Olympic Games.” To my amazement, with the ...

The lifeguard clubhouse was declared unsafe to occupy following the landslide on January 22 which claimed six lives. The multimillion-dollar building was one of four sites on Adams Ave issued a red ...

A person has been arrested after the discovery of an alleged clandestine drug laboratory in Ōkere Falls near Rotorua. Detective Sergeant Leonie Smith said a 58-year-old man was arrested after a search ...

A Te Puna resident says his grandchildren no longer walk around the small seaside town for fear of aggressive, roaming dogs. Tommy Wilson, an author and grandfather, carries a golf club after dog ...

A biosecurity operation is underway in the Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe following the discovery of a single male Oriental fruit fly in a surveillance trap. Biosecurity New Zealand commissioner north ...

Chris Stone wants Whakatāne District Council to rethink chipseal replacement of the asphalt streets in Waterways subdivision. Photo / Diane McCarthy Ōhope’s Waterways subdivision residents are ...

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Seven people have been pulled from the Waikato River after four men lost buoyancy and began calling for help, prompting three bystanders to jump in help before police arrived. The four men had decided ...

Now Timu, who was his legal guardian and great aunt, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, accepting her role in his death. She failed, without lawful excuse, to provide the child in her care with ...