Bay Of Plenty

What was meant to be a grand return to business has become another nightmare for the tourism sector after a wet start to the year.

Police are investigating the death of a young woman after the Bay Dreams festival in Mount Maunganui.

A project in Tairāwhiti is one of two in the country piloting ways to help men talk about the tough stuff that's well away from the confines of a pub.

A witness whose family members were mowed down by the castle claimed they were "moments away from a tragedy".

Civil defence is working with coastal scientists as a storm surge is predicted for the already soaked Coromandel peninsula.

Former Blue Baths leaseholder Jo Romanes says it has been hard to step away from the role as the historic building is continuing to decay with no one to advocate for it.

Tauranga's A Summer's Day Live is off, following yesterday's canning of the Summer Haze concert in north Auckland.

The beach area in Whakatāne was closed on New Year's day after a contractor discovered the broken sewage pipe.

Malcolm Campbell has been made a Member of the NZ Order of Merit for his services to local government and the community.

A motorcyclist has died after going off the road and into the water at Waiotahe, Opotiki.

New Year's Eve revellers witnessed the "terrifying" moment a bouncy castle was picked up by the wind and tumbled across a Tauranga park during festivities.

Emergency services are responding to a crash on State Highway 30 that has left four people seriously injured.

There are 67 'Bears' in Rotorua, but there's no cause for alarm.

Three people have died in separate water incidents in the North Island overnight.

Police say the rescue of a 14-year-old boy off rocks near Ōpōtiki was a miracle.

An iwi in the Bay of Plenty has developed its own climate change strategy, and they want whānau to have a climate change kōrero this Christmas.

A student from Rotorua will become only the second Māori ever to study medicine at Harvard.

A person involved in a crash on State Highway 2 in a rural area of western Bay of Plenty this afternoon has died.

Thirteen motels have been given the green light to continue as contracted emergency accommodation.