Tauranga City Council is seeking community feedback on a proposed amendment to its Alcohol Control Bylaw which would formalise the temporary summer-period alcohol-free... Read More

A kuia claims she and her daughter-in-law were subjected to strip searches during the Ōpōtiki police raids on homes suspected to be connected to the Mongrel... Read More

The Weekend Sun Emerging Artist Award is a much-anticipated part of the Bay of Plenty Garden & Art Festival in November. Emerging or artists wanting to be... Read More

Speed limits have dropped from 100km/h to 80km/h on three Hauraki roads. Waihī Beach Rd, Kennedy Rd and Dickey Flat Rd reduced to 80km/h while the 50km/h... Read More

Volunteer surf lifeguards rescued four people on Saturday, one at Uretiti Beach in Northland and three near Motuotau Island near Mount Maunganui in the Bay of... Read More

It would possibly be no stretch of the imagination to say that motorcycling history was made in the Wairarapa region at the weekend. The fifth and final round... Read More

Think about your kids. That is the message from ACC this week ahead of Guy Fawke's. On average ACC accepts around 300 new claims every year for fireworks-related... Read More

Korrey Rose Whyman's final words were to a 111 call-taker saying: 'They are shooting at us. They are going to f***ing kill us”. At that point, gunshots... Read More

MetService weather stations were generally on the cooler side of average to start the week with Taupō getting down to -0.8°C Monday morning. The temperature... Read More

Paris Nuku has many strings to her bow. She's a content creator, mother, home cook, caterer and food influencer with hundreds of thousands of followers -... Read More

New Zealand Post could eventually stop delivering mail to individual letterboxes and instead require clusters of boxes under proposed changes, and the Postal... Read More

Kawerau District Council has voted to pull funding from Eastern Bay of Plenty economic development agency ToiEDA. The council had budgeted $25,000 for the... Read More