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Eastern clubs dominating Oceans’17

The majority of teams took points on day two of the 2017 Surf Life Saving Championships in Mount Maunganui on Friday. With 46 clubs represented from around New... Read More

Today’s weather with Rosalie

The weather and tides, how many layers of clothing to wear today, an interesting factoid about New Zealand history? It must be time for today's weather with Rosalie... Read More

What’s On? Festivals & dragons

Good morning Sunners, welcome to Saturday and the first day of the weekend for many of you. MetService says it'll be mainly day with morning cloud and southwesterlies,... Read More

Clean the Bay’s beaches this Sunday

Western Bay residents are being encouraged to don gloves and help clean up our shoreline this Sunday. Part of Envirohub's Sustainable Backyards month, people are... Read More

Tauranga building fire now extinguished

UPDATED 7.30AM: Conflicting reports are coming in of the location of the huge fire which broke out in Birch Avenue this morning. In a series of tweets, a New Zealand... Read More

Chiefs put Blues in their place

The Blues were their own worst enemies as the Chiefs beat them again with a resounding six-try victory in Hamilton. Steven Luatua has nobody to blame but himself... Read More

New role for Fonterra’s money man

Fonterra's current chief financial officer Lukas Paravicini has been appointed as the company's global consumer and foodservice chief operating officer. Effective... Read More

Sons of Zion performing for free

Internationally acclaimed artists Sons of Zion will perform at the Student Pulse Celebration at Kuirau Park in Rotorua this evening. The free concert celebrates... Read More

Teen on the run from police

Police are on the hunt for a teenager they believe is actively avoiding them. Bay of Plenty Police are trying to locate Jenifer Whakatihi and a warrant for her... Read More

Firefighters battling blaze in Te Puna

A helicopter with a monsoon bucket has been called to help firefighters quell a scrub fire in Te Puna this afternoon. The fire is located on Minden Road. There... Read More

Victim was ’sad and broken’: attacker

A 19-year-old woman was crouched naked and looking "broken" in an Auckland basement when a woman was told to use a tube to sexually violate her, the attacker has... Read More

Waikato ram raiders arrested

Four teenagers have been arrested following a spate of aggravated robberies and ram raids across the Waikato recently. Armed police raided a number of Hamilton... Read More