01:26pm Mon 30 Jan, 2017
Police are urging parents to take their children through a road safety rules refresher before the schools resume next week. After a two month break from school... Read More
11:21am Mon 30 Jan, 2017
New Zealand MX1 champion Cody Cooper of Mount Maunganui, led from the start of the feature race of the annual New Zealand Motocross Grand Prix at Woodville, but... Read More
04:50pm Fri 27 Jan, 2017
Higher prices for petrol and air fares are some of the factors pushing inflation up to 1.3 per cent. Petrol prices led the increase, with the average price paid... Read More
08:45am Fri 27 Jan, 2017
The focus goes on Woodville this weekend as New Zealand's elite motocross racers again flood into the town for the big annual New Zealand Motocross Grand Prix. With... Read More
07:06am Wed 25 Jan, 2017
The Demon Energy D1NZ National Drifting Championship will make New Zealand motor racing history for the second time this season, as the series undertakes another... Read More
06:38am Wed 25 Jan, 2017
The New Zealand Transport Agency has responded to criticism of the lack of central median barriers on State Highway 2, between Bethlehem and Katikati. Instead,... Read More
03:23pm Sun 22 Jan, 2017
More than $9,000 has been raised in a charity ride organised by Bayride Motorcycles. Three hundred bikers turned up at the Tauranga store last Sunday for the ride,... Read More
01:38pm Sun 22 Jan, 2017
A driver who it is said refused to stop, struck a pushchair on an intersection at Girven Road, Mount Maunganui, knocking a baby out of the pushchair and onto the... Read More
03:31pm Thu 19 Jan, 2017
UPDATED 4:40PM: The petrol spill caused by a three-vehicle crash on Hewletts Road in Mount Maunganui near the harbour bridge has now been cleared. Western Bay... Read More
05:02pm Mon 16 Jan, 2017
Police have named the woman killed after a crash on State Highway 1, on Sunday. Esther Grace Lynn Chavel Bhana, 33, died following a two-car crash on the highway... Read More
06:44am Mon 16 Jan, 2017
Traffic congestion on State Highway 2, near Katikati, has boosted the awareness of the need of a bypass. Community board chair Jenny Hobbs' has launched a petition... Read More
09:49am Sun 15 Jan, 2017
UPDATED: 11.11am. The woman passenger trapped in a tourist bus that crashed down a six-metre bank in Tongariro Forest Park on Sunday morning has been freed. A police... Read More