The party after the Bay of Plenty Steamers' historic NPC semifinal win continued in downtown Tauranga on Saturday, bar and restaurant owners say. Some... Read More

It always takes a special kind of athlete to win the Husqvarna Hard Adventure Enduro, so it's just as well that so many special riders have entered again for... Read More

A large fire spreading through important wetlands in northern Waikato has burned through 477 hectares of scrub and bog and firefighters warn it will take another... Read More

A major police investigation targeting organised crime prevented a planned shooting at a gang tangi and the attempted murder of a rival gang member, police... Read More

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that police did not use excessive force while detaining a youth (Mr Z) in Whangamatā on Saturday, December... Read More

The Government is listening to New Zealanders and Cabinet has agreed to recommend modifications to the Sentencing (Reinstating Three Strikes) Amendment Bill,... Read More

A $9.2 million fund to assist community conservation groups is an opportunity for local conservationists to apply for support to enhance biodiversity in our... Read More

Tauranga councillors will reconsider a controversial cul-de-sac in central Tauranga a landlord says has taken thousands of dollars off her property's value. The... Read More

The daughter of a man who died at Rotorua Hospital believes her dad's death after a 'huge fall” on a ward was preventable and the result of an overburdened... Read More

Rotorua Police have today charged a man in relation to the death of Michael William Bennett. Bennett was fatally shot while hunting in the Te Urewera Ranges... Read More

Police are speaking to media after a series of raids at gang locations across the North Island. Search warrants have been executed in the Eastern Bay... Read More

A building once part of the Waikato's bustling milk processing network now tells its own historic story. The former dairy factory at Manawarū, between Te... Read More