Videos

Zespri hits back

Zespri chairman Peter McBride is speaking out against The Kiwifruit Claim - a move to seek compensation from the government for losses caused by the bacterial disease... Read More

Searching in trying conditions

Lifeguards, Police and Land Search and Rescue teams are continuing shoreline and water searches around the Mount for a missing five-year-old boy, and are looking... Read More

Child sea search at first light

UPDATED 8pm: The search for a missing 5-year-old boy swept into the sea at Mount Maunganui will resume at first light. Police tonight say enquiries into today's... Read More

Bay’s late Sevens bloomer

At 30 years old Bay of Plenty's Matt Clutterbuck could be forgiven for giving up on any aspirations of fulfilling a Kiwi boy's dream - representing New Zealand on... Read More

Who should pay for by-election?

It's going to cost ratepayers $70,000 for a by-election to find someone to replace outgoing NZ First List MP Clayton Mitchell as a Tauranga City Councillor. Following... Read More

Fisherman asked God for help

Wayne Redman's not a religious man, but he called in a favour from a divine authority when confronted with death on Tauranga Harbour last Friday night. 'I looked... Read More

Election 2014: Three MPs for Bay

The Bay of Plenty region can lay claim to two new MPs taking its total to three following tonight's 2014 Election results. Incumbent Tauranga MP Simon Bridges is... Read More

Man’s burns self-inflicted

UPDATED: A man is in critical condition after dousing himself in petrol and setting himself on fire this afternoon. Police, St John Paramedics and Tauranga Fire... Read More

Is this boy the next Einstein?

Sharik Sazzad can recognise more than 30 country flags, identify what vitamins are in which fruits and name the Prime Minister New Zealand - he's two years old. The... Read More

What do you have to hide?

Fugitive whistle-blower Edward Snowden is back in the media claiming Kiwis are subject to mass surveillance through spyware Xkeyscore. He also claims the US National... Read More

Fair Go applies the screws

Fair Go is turning up the heat on a Tauranga businessman and his company tonight. Gordon Harcourt, reporter for the TVNZ consumer watchdog show, stood outside the... Read More

Should criminals be allowed to vote?

Six serving prisoners are currently seeking the right to vote ahead of the 2014 Election on September 20. Arthur William Taylor has lost his High Court bid and is... Read More