Bay Of Plenty

Gusta Peach came to New Zealand in 1951 to be a land girl. Now 87, her story roams from a human skull on her mantlepiece to lost love with a married man and buried cars in Indonesia during WW2.

The country's biggest port operator has posted a solid rise in profit as it handled a record numbers of containers.

Rollie Heke has been charged with attempted murder and five others have been arrested after he was captured early this morning.

Frustrated Egdecumbe residents are throwing their support behind a lawsuit against the Bay of Plenty Regional Council, saying they want someone to blame for the devastating April flood.

The body of a fisherman missing from Tauranga since yesterday morning has been found.

A Tauranga fisherman, who built his own aluminium boat, has been reported missing.

Kelly Phelps rescues 100 to 200 battery hens every week. Before the chooks head off to lifestyle blocks, urban sections and dairy farms around the country, she prepares them for 'life on the outside' 

The police are not ruling out drugs and gang related activity as they piece together what led to the deaths of a Rotorua uncle and nephew.

Police looking for a missing uncle and nephew say the discovery of two bodies in Mamaku Forest is being treated as suspicious.

A school principal who filled out a bank withdrawal slip in te reo Māori was refused service at a bank in Whakatāne.

A plan to link Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga has been unveiled by transport lobby group Greater Auckland, which wants government backing. Audio

The Rotorua men went missing over a week ago, police say.

A search has been launched for two men who got lost in the Kaimanawa Forest after they fled police in a car, before running off into the bush.

A group of senior citizens who build and paint their own low-cost coffins are the stars of a new musical documentary.