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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...
High temperatures and increased seismic activity has been recorded at Mt Ruapheu's Crater Lake. GNS Science duty volcanologist...
Three Rotorua school-aged sisters, their Rotorua father and their cousin from Mokai were the five people killed in a crash...
Nine people are dead after three separate crashes this morning, including five family members who died when their car slammed...
One person has died in a serious crash on State Highway 30, Tikitere, near Rotorua. Another person has been transported...
Two helicopters, three water tankers, and four fire trucks have been sent to battle a bush fire in Kaingaroa south of Rotorua. Fire...
