An 80-year-old man has died from injuries sustained in a crash earlier this month. In a statement released overnight, police say Raymond Bartholomew Matthews... Read More

Residents call it the forgotten highway, and on Sunday night they got a reminder why. Fallen trees and debris came washing down in a raging torrent on State... Read More

This time last year Rotorua was in a poor position - a description used by the city's council in its own pre-election report. But whether that has changed... Read More

The man is being labelled as impossible to contact — but says he is focused on talking about Tauranga issues through local media. Between a bullying... Read More

Labour plans to mandate reading, writing and maths "core teaching requirements", to ensure consistency regardless of which school a student attends. Those... Read More

National is promising to put $280 million towards cancer treatments, by restricting fee-free prescriptions to superannuitants and those on low incomes. The... Read More

Cries of 'No Way” rang out through the courtroom as a judge ordered the destruction of Tauranga Rottweiler, Chopper that bit a vet. The dog's owner... Read More

State Highway 35 is now reopen to a single lane at the site of a large slip between Beach Road and the Motu River Bridge east of Ōpōtiki. Waka Kotahi Bay... Read More

Pāpāmoa's Double Teaspoons café is doubling down on their fundraising efforts for Cancer Society's Daffodil Day again this year! This Friday, August,... Read More

George Gautrey has only one regret after securing a brilliant bronze medal at the Sailing World Championships overnight - that he couldn't turn it into silver... Read More

A former councillor has been ejected from a tumultuous Tauranga City Council meeting because he refused to stop speaking from the public gallery. Murray Guy... Read More

Coromandel MP Scott Simpson says he is "thrilled" to see the reopening of State Highway 25A inching closer. Visting the site last week, Simpson says progress... Read More