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The Mystics have knocked the Magic out of third spot.

Tauranga's former mayor, Greg Brownless, has congratulated the winners of the city council election, in which he was runner-up.

Only one of the six candidates from the council sacked by the government in 2021 has returned to council.

Tauranga will choose who will be running their city for the first time in five years on Saturday.

The community is divided ahead of the polls closing, Local Democracy Reporter Alisha Evans says. Audio

A crash between two trucks has left two people injured and blocked part of State Highway 36, the road between Rotorua and Tauranga.

One mayor is warning of "disastrous consequences" if police and councils lose access to the country's network of more than 1000 highway CCTV cameras.

Candidates at a public meeting raised concerns about the plan's $4.9 billion proposed spend and its affordability.

Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle crash on Monday afternoon.

The family wants to allow monitoring of the volcano, but feels stymied by the court case over the explosion, lawyer says.

But Mahé Drysdale says he has worked in the city, grew up there and, if elected, will move at the end of the year.

A group of Rotorua children have used science to prove whether the basis of the legendary love story of Hinemoa and Tūtānekai is true.

A new retirement village in Mount Maunganui is upsetting neighbours and drawing attention to fast-tracking legislation.

"We're not giving up on you," judge tells teen who robbed a jewellery store while on home detention.

The waters of Lake Rotorua's lit up in celebration of Matariki with the help of 160 drones.

Voting papers will start going out this weekend to residents of Tauranga for the city's first local body elections in nearly five years, with four of the mayoral candidates facing off in a debate last…

Police have charged four teenagers, aged 14 and 15, over a serious assault in Kawerau that left a person in critical condition with stab wounds.