Firefighters begged police for a helicopter to help rescue a teenage girl from a Coromandel cliff face, but police refused ...

The Waitomo Petrol Station forecourt in Pāpāmoa is being cordoned after a diesel spill. Firefighters were called to the scene ...

Old wounds from the time Tauranga was run by government commissioners have reopened during a discussion on future funding for ...

Permanent and temporary alcohol-free zones will be enforced across the city as police and council work to reduce ...

A predator who preyed on young girls he met on Snapchat has been told his sexual offending is so serious, he needs to be ...

State Highway 2 north of Katikati in the Bay of Plenty is now open after a serious crash earlier today. Police said they were ...

The number of home and furniture shoppers in the Sylvia Park area coming from Auckland increased 1400%. The 1156 who came ...

Mt Ruapehu’s crater lake is reheating with a 5C increase since early last month, GeoNet says. Te Wai ā-moe was in a cooling ...

The elusive but always welcome gentle giant of the seas – te whai rahi the oceanic manta ray – has been assigned a threatened ...

A car has reportedly driven into a shop in Tauranga. Readers have said emergency services are on Cameron Rd, in Greerton, ...

O’KANE Michael Francis (Mike) ...

As SH2 is the main connection between Auckland and the holiday hotspots of the Coromandel Peninsula, Waihī Beach and Tauranga ...