Bay Of Plenty

Rotorua resident and accessibility advocate Roger Loveless worries it will take an accident before a footpath is put in near a new subdivision.

A woman was seriously assaulted shortly after midnight on 20 January.

Unlicensed dirt bike riders who speed in public areas without helmets are putting their lives at risk, police say.

Police in Bay of Plenty are asking for the public's help to locate a vehicle of interest, after a woman was seriously assaulted in Te Puke.

Five more people have been arrested and charged in relation to the death of a Tauranga man last year.

Guests at a Tauranga hotel are being welcomed to the city with the threat of a parking fine.

A man has been shot in the leg in an altercation believed to involve gang members.

A section of road has been forced to close after a sinkhole appeared in Whangamatā.

What was meant to be a grand return to business has become another nightmare for the tourism sector after a wet start to the year.

Police are investigating the death of a young woman after the Bay Dreams festival in Mount Maunganui.

A project in Tairāwhiti is one of two in the country piloting ways to help men talk about the tough stuff that's well away from the confines of a pub.

A witness whose family members were mowed down by the castle claimed they were "moments away from a tragedy".

Civil defence is working with coastal scientists as a storm surge is predicted for the already soaked Coromandel peninsula.

Former Blue Baths leaseholder Jo Romanes says it has been hard to step away from the role as the historic building is continuing to decay with no one to advocate for it.

Tauranga's A Summer's Day Live is off, following yesterday's canning of the Summer Haze concert in north Auckland.

The beach area in Whakatāne was closed on New Year's day after a contractor discovered the broken sewage pipe.

Malcolm Campbell has been made a Member of the NZ Order of Merit for his services to local government and the community.

A motorcyclist has died after going off the road and into the water at Waiotahe, Opotiki.

New Year's Eve revellers witnessed the "terrifying" moment a bouncy castle was picked up by the wind and tumbled across a Tauranga park during festivities.

Emergency services are responding to a crash on State Highway 30 that has left four people seriously injured.