Taupō

Olympian Nicole van der Kaay is bringing back the fun in 2025. Audio

A mum is calling for change after her child's lip was torn open when a menacing dog bit her on the face at a Hastings property.

Council CCTV camera operators have helped nab a group of young people police say were trying to burgle a shop.

Police are hunting a prisoner who has escaped from a transport van in Taupō, and are warning people not to approach him.

An engineer who forged the signatures of higher qualified colleagues is to be sentenced in the Rotorua District Court.

The Lake Taupō Cycle Challenge returns to roads this weekend for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began, to the relief of Taupō businesses.

One person has died, and State Highway 1 is closed at Lake Taupō and Waihola, after separate crashes this morning.

One person has died following a crash near Taupō this afternoon.

A search is underway in a Taupō forest after a man fired a gun at police during a routine vehicle stop early this morning.

Police are investigating the disappearance of a woman in Taupō.

Taupō has had a Covid-19 testing blitz today, after five cases of the virus were discovered in the lakeside town. Audio

Taupō iwi Ngāti Tūwharetoa has this year received a financial return of $4.7 million.

Three people with critical injuries are being transferred to hospital by helicopters after a multi-vehicle crash north of Taupō, which has blocked State Highway 1.

The police are seeking help from the public as they investigate a house fire that left a woman, man and baby dead.

A dramatic incident in which 13 people had to jump from a plane before it crashed has been blamed on an unnoticed engine fault. Video

A hapū trust is heading to court to try and stop the iwi's deal, saying it wants a land block returned to it.

A woman has been rescued from a gorge in Taupō, after her car plunged down a near-vertical cliff.

Police are investigating the death of a woman struck by a vehicle on a property in Taupō.

Baz Lloyd, 65, jumped back into his blazing motorhome and moved it away from other campervans, but he laughs off suggestions his actions were courageous. Audio

The body of Barbara Thompson, who went missing while fishing at Lake Taupō yesterday, has been found.