Bay Of Plenty

Emergency services were called to the geothermal valley on Tukiterangi Street last night.

Two people have been seriously injured in a crash in Whakatāne, after a single vehicle drove off the road.

A man has died after being pulled from the water at a beach in Mount Maunganui.

Tauranga retailers say more homeless has meant more aggressiveness and damage, with staff at one store facing daily urine clean-ups.

Michael Paul Graham was just 15 years old when he came across pornographic imagery and developed an "addiction" to child sexual abuse material.

Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell calls the city's weed control funding 'grossly unfair'.

Two passengers were also taken to hospital in a serious conditions after the vehicle collided with an oncoming truck.

It's the latest potential shift for the long-running Thursday event.

Tauranga Direct Road is closed while emergency services respond.

The 18-year-old has been banned from driving.

Signs in the area warn of drowning risks due to water flows released from the Lake McLaren dam upstream.

Police are still investigating the events leading up to the deaths of a man and a woman in Pukehina.

A body has been found after a man went missing while swimming near Rotorua last week.

Lauren Fraser says she now avoids spending time in her family home.

The club has planted 120 native trees and shrubs, turning a mistake in 2023 into an opportunity to enhance the area for future generations.

Heavy rain and thunderstorms have been dropping rain across the upper North Island.

A woman was found dead on Thursday afternoon, and a man on Friday morning, at a property in Pukehina.

The New Zealand Warriors have not played in Rotorua since 2020 - and won't in 2026 either.

The Bay of Plenty Regional Council killed or contained more than 2000 wallabies as part of its pest control programme in 2024/25.

Coastal and tidal waterways remain New Zealand's most deadly.