East Coast

Temperatures reached record levels in parts of eastern New Zealand as high pressure and a warm air mass combined to create sweltering conditions.

Large, established honey companies make a lot of money from the manuka-covered hills of the East Coast. While the beehive rental money coming from manuka-based businesses is sizeable, some local Ngati…

Wi Pere Trust in Gisborne has a mixed portfolio of horticultural crops from kiwifruit to oranges, mandarins, grapes and persimmons. The Trust is looking at expanding its citrus because of market…

Police in Gisborne are looking for a Taser an officer lost on duty last night.

It's set to be a wet start to the long weekend for Gisborne and northern Hawke's Bay, where heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected.

This morning's big earthquake off the East Cape coast is an aftershock of the 7.1 quake that hit a month ago, a GNS seismologist says.

Investigators will examine the cause of a fire which threatened to spread to a large chemicals tank at a trucking company building near Gisborne last night.

A major highway in the Gisborne region is now partially open after heavy rain caused a slip in the area.

Three young children had to be towed to safety after the car they were in became surrounded by rising flood waters in the Coromandel.

An inexperienced 20-year-old sailor has been found off the East Coast by an air force helicopter.

Police say no offence was committed by Gisborne mayor Meng Foon when he placed money on a table at a Father's Day function last week. Audio

The East Coast of the North Island continues to be rattled by earthquakes, with two sharp shocks this morning.

An elderly man's friends have found his body in a car down a bank on the same road he lived on, after he was missing for five days.

A complaint under a rule not upheld since the 1920s has been laid against Gisborne's mayor for what he says was a donation at a party. Audio