Rotorua

Council CCTV camera operators have helped nab a group of young people police say were trying to burgle a shop.

People should avoid contact with the water at Ōkawa Bay in Lake Rotoiti, due to a potentially toxic algal bloom, Health New Zealand says.

Will Rotorua motels house the homeless for another year? Commissioner to consider evidence, following emergency housing motel hearing.

Three youth have been arrested after police say a tracking dog followed their scent after an armed robbery at a petrol station.

The Rotorua leg of the international mountain biking festival was boycotted by some - but still drew thousands of visitors and was worth millions to Rotorua's economy, its organiser says.

A homicide investigation has begun after a woman was found dead, and two others found at a different address in a critical condition.

A council legal bid for an injunction to get protesters to stay at least a metre from controversial sewerage works near Rotorua's sacred Lake Rotokākahi has failed - for now.

A crash between two trucks has left two people injured and blocked part of State Highway 36, the road between Rotorua and Tauranga.

The waters of Lake Rotorua's lit up in celebration of Matariki with the help of 160 drones.

A section of State Highway 5 near Tapapa in the Bay of Plenty is closed after a crash.

Local runner Michael Voss has won his fourth Rotorua marathon, while Debbie Donald took out the women's race.

A transport leader has slammed NZTA Waka Kotahi's 10-week closure of State Highway 1 over the beleaguered Brynderwyns, saying it is a fiasco and not justifiable.

Nine homeless people in Rotorua have rejected offers of help - and could face being trespassed from the city's reserves.

A woman found with serious injuries on a Rotorua road was probably injured elsewhere before she taken there, police say.

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