Bay Of Plenty

The Mayor of Tauranga says the newly elected National Party leader belongs to a new generation and will bring the caucus together. Audio

Police have named the Tauranga woman who died at a city marae after suffering injuries to her neck on Thursday night.

A Rotorua high school has been told to pay an ex-employee $4000 for losing his possessions and underpaying his severance wages after sacking him.

The country's biggest port operator has posted a record half year profit, as it handled a record number of containers.

A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder after the death of a woman in Tauranga overnight.

The number of homeless people in Tauranga has increased 20 percent in the past year.

An Opotiki man has been charged with the murder of a woman in the eastern Bay of Plenty town.

Police investigating the killing of a woman in the eastern Bay of Plenty have made an arrest.

A paraglider has died after hitting rock at Mount Maunganui.

Police are looking for two people seen leaving Papamoa Beach after the jawbone and teeth of a dead whale were removed.

A biblical plague of screeching frogs is terrorising the residents of a beachside Bay of Plenty town. Video

An elderly woman on a mobility scooter has died after she collided with a vehicle in Tauranga this afternoon.

Farmers in the eastern Bay of Plenty are bracing for more bad weather next week after torrential rain on Monday caused some rivers to overflow their banks. Video

Tauranga police are investigating the death of a man at the same property where another man was fatally injured last month.

Floodwater is covering large parts of the eastern Bay of Plenty after 24 hours of heavy rain.

Heavy rain and possible thunderstorms are forecast for the Bay of Plenty, including Rotorua.

Police are investigating after a man died from a head injury in Tauranga last night.

Environmentalists and fishers disagree over the future of two North Island cray fisheries.