Rotorua

Cemetery reserve land could be returned to iwi and developed to help address a housing shortage.

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

Months and months of heavy rain means many of the lakes around Rotorua are reaching levels not seen in 50 years, flooding nearby boat ramps, playgrounds and properties.

Rotorua residents may soon have a chance for a say on the future of their historic museum, which has been closed for seven years.

Two Olympians will go head to head in a unique triple event in Rotorua this weekend as a part of the Rotorua Marathon festival.

Emergency housing is supposed to be short-term for those most in need, but some residents have now lived in motels for two years or longer - with no immediate end in sight.

Outside our bigger cities, Aotearoa's smaller centres are seeing stacked races and fraught local issues.

A delegation is headed to London for the latest step in efforts to have significant Māori carvings, that have been there since the 19th century, returned in exchange for new ones.

Rotorua businesses are calling for the government to intervene in emergency housing as the iconic destination prepares for an influx of summer tourists.

Midweek Mediawatch: Hayden Donnell talked to Bryan Crump about a TVNZ emergency housing expose that also raised questions about coverage of the issue - and how the Herald set the record straight on a…

Mayoral candidate Ben Sandford claims recently-released prisoners with "no ties" to Rotorua are being placed in the city's emergency housing motels.