Bay Of Plenty

First-home buyers and elderly renters are paying the price of a "dire shortage" of housing in Rotorua, agents say.

The trial into the health and safety failings leading up to the Whakaari eruption is likely to be held outside Whakatāne.

Rotorua's Kleadmak Farms has been fined $27,000 after pigs were found grazing in native bush and effluent discharged into Umurua Stream.

Marty Hubbard used to grow thousands of lettuces - they rotted during the first lockdown when markets dried up overnight.

Tauranga's broken-hearted CBD, once littered with for lease signs in shop windows has turned a page with the opening of a $200 million development.

Two people have been killed in a two-vehicle crash on a section of SH2 at Waiotahe, near Ōpōtiki this afternoon.

A midwife has been censured and fined nearly $15,000 for giving a woman in labour a placebo instead of a painkiller.

A rāhui is in place for the Whakatāne heads after a drowning there last night.

Te Urewera and Lake Waikaremoana will reopen and welcome back visitors next month.

Police have identified the body of a man found on Sunday morning in Tauranga Harbour.

Doctor Bernard Conlon says he has received notification from the Medical Council of New Zealand that it intends to suspend him ahead of the investigation into the various complaints laid against him.

The kaumata of two iwi was also regarded as a pillar of knowledge of Māori arts and culture.

New court documents filed in the US claim cruise passengers hurt and killed in the Whakaari eruption weren't warned about the dangers they were walking into.

Police circulated a photo of a towel thought to belong to a young man found unresponsive in the water, as they sought to identify him.

Two new Covid-19 locations of interest have been added to the Ministry of Health's website.

A man believed to be in his 50s has died after a water-related incident at Mt Maunganui today.

A staff member at a Tauranga rest home who got a positive rapid antigen test (RAT) result for Covid-19 has had a negative nasal swab.

A child has died after an incident at a waterfall in remote Bay of Plenty today.