One patient was taken to Tauranga Hospital in a critical condition following a crash on State Highway 29, lower Kaimai range, on Friday evening. The incident... Read More

Tearful pleas from the wife of a Tongan overstayer who has lived illegally in Rotorua for 16 years have failed to prevent him being deported. Paea Vehikite's... Read More

Good morning and welcome to Saturday. Ko te ra tenei i hanga e te Ariki. Ka koa tatou, ka koa hoki ki reira. MetService is forecasting cloudy periods with... Read More

Stubborn, determined and a strong competitive streak: traits that have won Fairhaven School teacher Dana Piggott a place at next week's World Dragon Boat Championships... Read More

A coffee roastery in Tauriko is helping brew a better future for Fijian villages, one bean at a time, thanks to the passion of a Tauranga family. What began... Read More

'You just feel utterly helpless.” That was how a Tauranga nursing student described the feeling of addiction as she spoke of turning her life around. Kayla... Read More

A violent neo-Nazi hate group with international reach has been relisted as a terrorist entity by the New Zealand Government, amid ongoing efforts to prevent... Read More

Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden said Fire and Emergency New Zealand is deploying an additional 43-person taskforce to Manitoba, Canada on Sunday... Read More

State Highway 29, lower Kaimai range, is closed following a serious crash. Emergency services are responding to a two-vehicle crash on SH29, near Poripori... Read More

A Tauranga dairy owner is feeling panicked as his sales plummet after a ram raid. Police called Varinder Singh on July 1 at 1.30am to say that his store had... Read More

Rotorua police are planning a crackdown on illegal dirt bike riders, with a senior officer warning it could be only a matter of time before someone is killed... Read More

Tauranga U18 Women's Team (back row, from left): Joseph Broughton, Aaliyah Hill, Richard McClenaghan, Charis Broughton, Kashana Murray, Jayla Teki, Jeanna Cooney,... Read More