Bay Of Plenty

Chiefs and Māori All Blacks player Sean Wainui, 25, has died in a single-vehicle crash at McLaren Falls Park this morning.

Kiwifruit are budding and bird scaring devices are booming - for some people living in rural areas this makes spring a very annoying time of the year.

The Ministry of Health has announced 60 new community cases of Covid-19 today - 56 in Auckland, three in Waikato and the one in Bay of Plenty announced last night.

The Bay of Plenty town of Katikati is on high alert after a person tested positive yesterday for Covid-19, with new locations of interest in the region named by the Ministry of Health this morning.

Hemp New Zealand says it has a list of farmers wanting to grow hemp but markets need to be built and infrastructure secured before growing the production base further.

A milestone dose of the Covid-19 vaccine has been administered to a Tauranga Moana teen, where vaccination rates are some of the lowest in the country.

Ten years ago today, the vessel Rena slammed into Ōtāiti - Astrolabe Reef - causing carnage to the underwater oasis. Leah Tebbutt takes a look back at the disaster and how the reef is doing now.

Eighteen year old Kaitlyn Lamb sometimes works in her family's vegetable garden at night because her days are so crammed full volunteering to improve the environment. She's the only New Zealander…

Bee science has been used to save an elephant and the Queen is a fan of pohutukawa honey - a former president of the Bee Keeping Association has been digging deep into the industry's archives.

Expanding fish passage work on the Rangitaiki River to the rest of the Bay was the challenge put before Bay of Plenty regional councillors recently.

Kawerau's geothermally heated pool is expected to be steaming hot again soon, thanks to a council decision yesterday to drill a new well.

An agribusiness expert says the detection of Covid-19 on a sample of Zespri kiwifruit in China is unlikely to create any long-term problems for the company.

The New Zealand electric utility bike company UBCO is expanding in the US and United Kingdom and has recently moved into South Africa.

Rotorua Lakes Council appears to remain open-minded but "sceptical" when it comes to Three Waters reform.

Rotorua leaders are up in arms about the possibility of more quarantine hotels in the city, one of which could neighbour a marae wharekai.