05:00pm Tue 25 Apr, 2023
A Tauranga retail shop has been left with the front window smashed following a burglary. The Cherrywood Lotto and Bookshop in Cherrywood Drive, Otumoetai was... Read More
02:00pm Tue 25 Apr, 2023
Rotorua and Taupō Area Police have arrested 12 young people in relation to three aggravated robberies and a ram-raid style burglary in the past week. About... Read More
08:30am Tue 25 Apr, 2023
A man has been arrested and put before the courts following a string of offences in Paeroa earlier this month that left damage to several buildings and vehicles. Police... Read More
05:00pm Mon 24 Apr, 2023
A Bay of Plenty businessman has been sentenced to four-and-a-half months home detention on six tax evasion charges after his claim that his business was not covered... Read More
01:00pm Mon 24 Apr, 2023
A Bay of Plenty mother says her daughter could have died when hundreds of cars in an illicit car meet blocked the roads to the hospital, preventing her from reaching... Read More
02:00pm Sun 23 Apr, 2023
Police are asking for information including CCTV or video following an arrest being made at an illegal street racing incident in Tauranga early Sunday morning. One... Read More
07:30am Sun 23 Apr, 2023
Customs officers have seized 50kg of cocaine from a ship that docked in Tauranga on Friday morning. An inspection found the drugs on the freighter, which had... Read More
07:30am Fri 21 Apr, 2023
The Toyota Aqua has taken the top spot from the Mazda Demio as the nation's most frequently stolen car, AMI can reveal. In 2022, the Aqua, also known as the Toyota... Read More
04:30pm Thu 20 Apr, 2023
The man who sparked an Armed Offenders stand-off at a Rotorua bank showed staff a remote control device and told them he could 'blow the building up”. 'I've... Read More
08:30am Thu 20 Apr, 2023
An illegal operation has been shut down by a joint investigation targeting logistics sector insiders allegedly working with the Killer Beez gang to import drugs... Read More
07:31am Thu 20 Apr, 2023
Armed police have blocked off a street in Hairini this morning. A SunLive reader has messaged us on Facebook to say Haukore Street in Hairini is blocked off. 'Police... Read More
04:00pm Wed 19 Apr, 2023
The man facing charges after an Armed Offenders stand-off at a Rotorua branch of the BNZ bank can now be named as Rhys Hoffman. Hoffman appeared at Rotorua District... Read More