Bay Of Plenty

MetService said localised downpours of up to 40mm an hour may affect some areas from 3pm on Monday.

Bay of Plenty father Reon Wikeepa who leapt in the water to save his daughter and got caught in a rip might have survived if a flotation device was near, a coroner says.

Stories from the 2023 archive: Cosmo's at a high country station in the far south, Leah checks in on a toy treasure trove in Te Puke and Sally's off grid with a former Wellington mayor.

A Tauranga business is worried the name change for National Park Village will create confusion for its customers.

A Kawerau resident has described the smell wafting over the town from a nearby worm farm as like "pungent, raw sewage".

It comes despite the council looking to put off work to spread costs over longer.

Graffiti artists appear to be the only Te Teko residents happy with the boat being put in the centre of town.

Whakatāne District Council has improved relationships with Māori but more work needs to be done just to keep up with legislative requirements and population growth.

Three cherished family pets have died over the holiday period after being reportedly killed by roaming dogs in Whakatāne.

Police are not treating the death of a woman in Tauranga as suspicious.

Officers discovered the woman was dead when they were called to a property on Sunday night.

Police are investigating reports of a man possibly carrying a firearm in Te Puke this afternoon.

Jordan van Deursen failed to return from a hike in the Wentworth valley area with his terrier Bagho on 29 October.

One person has died and another has been critically injured after Bay of Plenty crashes, near Rotorua, and south of Whakatāne.

Tourism providers in the Bay of Plenty are prepping for their busiest cruise season since the pandemic.

Hotspots continue continue to burn at the Matakana Island fire, but Fire and Emergency says its response has moved to a monitoring phase.

Stories plucked from the 2023 archives: Cosmo's with chooks on a cliff edge, Sally's picking apples and Leah meets a dairy farmer who hails from Japan.

A person has died and two others were injured following a car crash that closed a highway in Lower Kaimai today.