Bay Of Plenty

Hundreds of women from Eastern Bay of Plenty have had to travel to Tauranga Hospital to give birth in the last year, since four of Whakatāne's five obstetricians resigned.

Susan Knowles and Jacqualine Wheeler, both 71, are unaccounted for following the landslide, along with four others.

Analysis: Much of the risk is invisible, accumulating quietly beneath the surface until a sudden collapse occurs, writes geologist Martin Brook.

Police are supporting the family of a man who was swept downstream after falling from a boat in the Bay of Plenty town of Ōpōtiki.

Tauranga City Council has ordered an independent review into events leading up to the Mauao landslide, as Ngāi Te Rangi call for a full investigation into what caused it.

The boy died alongside his grandmother at their Welcome Bay Rd home.

RNZ understands the two people who died after a landslide engulfed a house on Welcome Bay Road are a grandmother and a grandchild.

Police say six people are missing at Mount Maunganui after Thursday's landslip at a campsite, while they are seeking further information on three others.

RNZ understands children are among those missing after a landslide came down on several structures at campground at the base of Mauao, Mount Maunganui.

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.