Eleven Foodstuffs supermarkets in the region are establishing collection points for plastic and metal caps and lids, joining Auckland, Tauranga and Christchurch, in a programme which now has about 50 drop-off points across New Zealand. Read...

Fire and Emergency services were called to the scene on Aerodrome Road. Read...

Fire and Emergency services were called to the scene on Aerodrome Road. Read...

Tauranga mayor Mahé Drysdale has copped some heat after being the mayor for a city he is yet to live in. Read...

Ex-Olympian Drysdale is yet to move to the city he leads because he says he can’t find a home in his desired school zone. Read...

Tauranga teenager Sam Ruthe continues to astonish in middle-distance events and has bettered the time an Olympic champion set when he was 15. Read...

A 40-year-old Tauranga man has been charged with dangerous driving after the incident on the Kaimai Range. Read...

Major surgical cases have been delayed in some places because of a strike by lab workers at public hospitals in Wellington, Palmerston North, Tauranga, Rotorua, Whakatane, Nelson and Dunedin. Read...

Higher than allowed levels of asbestos have been detected in a load of dunite rock, worrying workers. Read...

They were released on to the market with great fanfare, but a year later, the Elizabeth Towers are ghostly quiet. What’s going on? Read...