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A series of earthquakes have struck near Rotorua this morning. The largest at 8.12am measured 4.9 on the Richter Scale and...
by Charlotte Jones, Local Democracy Reporter A councillor says he will complain to the Race Relations Commissioner after...
Increases in crater lake temperature, gas and volcanic tremors have prompted GNS Science to raise the Volcanic Alert Level...
Survivors, families of the dead and first responders will today fill Whakatāne's Mataatua Marae on the one-year anniversary...
A Rotorua-based helicopter company that rescued survivors off Whakaari/White Island when emergency services were instructed...
New Zealand's response to tackling Covid-19 reached another key milestone today with the launch of a Covid contact tracing...
In time for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, Māori Party candidate for Waiariki Rawiri Waititi has announced the party's policy for...
Labour leader Jacinda Ardern is promising to make Matariki – the start of the Māori New Year – New Zealand's 12th public...
Rotorua's Fat Dog cafe has been praised for being open and honest about being visited by a family with Covid-19 at the weekend. Fat...
Two police officers have been injured and a police car struck with an axe in a dramatic chase that ended with a man being...
The National Kiwi Hatchery Aotearoa has welcomed its 2020th kiwi chick, just in time to celebrate the New Year. The special...
It was like a scene from Armageddon - grey, dusty and hard to breathe. But heroic Rotorua pilot Tim Barrow from Volcanic...
Staff and guests of a Rotorua motel are feeling shaken after tending to a man who said he had been stabbed in the chest. Police...
It was Warren Uata Kiwi who pulled the trigger of a gun in an attempt to murder Karl Andres Nyman close to two decades ago,...
There are fears six people are dead after a bus rolled in bad weather on State Highway 5 at Ngatira, near Rotorua. It is...
The four children of a man who killed his wife say they still love and support their dad and know he wouldn't have committed...
Former principal Uenuku Fairhall slept in the same bed as a student while naked, engaged in sexualised talk with students...
Two hearses have arrived at the scene where four people were killed in a truck-car crash in a remote Bay of Plenty forestry...
A French tourist who died in a hot pool at Rotorua's Polynesian Spa was seen by a staff member face down in the pool but...
Taupō residents are urged to minimise toilet flushing and water use this morning as the clean-up from yesterday's sewage...
Police have launched a homicide investigation following the death of a 39-year-old man in a firearms incident in Rotorua...
The man responsible for the Matatā crash which killed three Rotorua Higgins workers has been ordered to pay $21,000, complete...
The cash-strapped community of Murupara will meet with the last remaining bank in the town tonight in a hope it will reopen...
Western Heights High School students have been allowed out after a two hour lockdown. Just after 1pm the classrooms were...
