Bay Of Plenty

A tornado has ripped through Mount Maunganui, damaging a large sports stadium, lifting up roofs from homes and businesses and uprooting trees. Audio

First to Tauranga where a tornado has ripped through Mount Maunganui, damaging a large sports stadium, lifting up roofs and uprooting trees. Audio

Bay of Plenty police are arguing their so-called horror highway proves that lower speed limits cut down on crashes. Audio

A Te Puke freezing worker who's been threatened with the sack because of a Facebook post says she's not backing down. Audio

The iwi settlement trust and community housing provider, Nga Potiki, has shown an interest in purchasing some of the more than 12-hundred state houses that will be for sale in Tauranga. Audio

An annual child safety car seat sting by the police and Plunket in the Bay of Plenty has thrown up worrying results - with some children not any form of restraint, and other sitting in seat with… Audio

A Tauranga man says the clean up of an oil spill in the city's inner harbour has been too slow and badly coordinated. Audio

Taupo's annual Medieval Fair celebrates the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, an attempt to make peace between unpopular and unscrupulous King John and the English barons. Magna Carta has resonated… Audio

Son of WW1 sapper Bertram Martin, one of the New Zealand Tunnellers. Audio

The chair of the council-owned Ports of Auckland doesn't believe the rivalry with Tauranga is contributing to the debate of how the company should grow. Audio

The stones a young hunter got in his boots, while climbing up a slip to get to a deer he'd just shot, have probably saved his life. Audio

Auckland filmmakers who spent a year in Reporoa, Bay of Plenty, to film The Ground We Won, a candid portrait of a New Zealand provincial rugby team. Audio

A man who tried to throttle a police dog and then attack two officers has had nine months added to a lengthy jail term. Audio

Organists preview their Killer B3 Hammond Organ Summit at the Tauranga National Jazz Festival. Audio

Ross Tanner had to get up out his chair three times at the inaugural Katikati and Waihi Beach Community Business awards. He won the Agricultural/Horticultural Business of the year award, the Most… Audio

An independent kiwifruit growers group is calling on other growers to reject a referendum which could change the industry. Audio

Brother and Sister John Waaka and Mahora Wiston remember the dilemma their father Kuru Waaka faced when he was approached by Pakake Leonard to help establish the Whakarewarewa Village and the New… Audio

Founded by Austin Cunningham and his promotion company, Tauranga Music Sux, the Woodcock Festival is an annual celebration of the local D.I.Y. scene. Frank Eggleton, on the bill with his band… Audio

Two Tauranga men say they would have never survived a three hour swim to shore without their lifejackets and their floating chilly bin full of snapper. Audio

Senior Research Advisor at Frontline Analysts, who writes on economics and finance. Audio