The patrol car was written off with $27,624 of damage. Now the 35-year-old has been ordered to pay police back $10,000 and serve 16 months in jail after being sentenced in the Hamilton District Court ...

Zespri, the world’s largest kiwifruit marketer, has named Dame Lisa Carrington, New Zealand’s most decorated Olympian, as its ...

Gin made by a micro distillery in Thames has been named the world’s best at this year’s World Gin Awards in London.

A pedestrian has been hit by a vehicle in central Rotorua. A police spokeswoman said emergency services were called to Amohau ...

Iconic Kiwi lolly the Jaffa has been discontinued and will disappear from shop shelves for good. Sweetmaker RJ’s, who ...

As truck driver Kelly Shearer turned the corner from Mount Maunganui’s Hewletts Rd on to Tasman Quay, he felt a bump, which ...

The Waikato officer’s actions led to an investigation that involved an audit of their use of the database. It identified ...

Pat passed away on Monday 30 June 2025 suddenly, aged 85 years. Beloved wife of the late Brian. Cherished and dearly loved Mum to Grant (deceased) and Sherrin. Adored and loved Nana Pat to Chloe, ...

Parking in Mount Maunganui North is back on Tauranga City Council’s agenda. It comes more than a year after the council put ...

It comes after Customs seized 130kg of cocaine worth up to $50.44m at the Port of Tauranga in May, found in duffle bags in a ...

The owners of a dive company that discovered a car submerged in the Waikato River with a dead body in it have provided ...

Water from the system, which extends more than 60km from Katikati-Waihī Beach in the northwest to Te Puke-Maketū in the east, is used for irrigation and frost protection by orchardists and vegetable ...