The election of new Tauranga City Councillor Andrew Hollis has stirred up controversy within a week of being elected.Hollis has been accused of racism after comments by him on social media supporting burning the Treaty of Waitangi,... Read...

The questions from Sue Collier`s great-grandchildren are heartbreaking. Fourteen months ago their dad, Collier`s grandson Steven Hart, died when the car he was driving crashed into a truck and burst into flames north of Tauranga.There... Read...

Security footage of NZ First MP Clayton Mitchell being thrown out of a Tauranga bar looks unlikely to ever be aired - despite his leader Winston Peters promising a screening. Read...

The rugby league star son of Shane Michael King, who died in a car crash near Tauranga this week, has paid tribute on social media to `the most amazing caring loving dad`.King, 51, of Putaruru, was in a single-vehicle crash on State... Read...

New Zealand First MP Clayton Mitchell is demanding an apology from security guards who booted him out of a Tauranga bar on Saturday night, describing them as politically-motivated `buffoons`. Read...

Police have named the man who died after a car careened into a river near Tauranga. Read...

New Zealand First MP Clayton Mitchell says he is victim of a `politically motivated` attack after he was forced out of a Tauranga bar on Saturday night.Mitchell fronted media this afternoon and said that he expected an apology from... Read...

A man wearing fishnet stockings and a high-vis jacket has exposed himself to a teenager in central Tauranga.A post on a Tauranga noticeboard said a white male, wearing a hi-vis jacket and fishnet stockings under his jacket, exposed... Read...

A rescue helicopter pilot says the well-known Tauranga man who died after his yacht sunk off the coast of Northland had become entangled in the ropes trailing a dropped life raft. Former ACT candidate Stuart Pedersen died after... Read...

The ACT party leader has paid tribute to well-known Tauranga sailor and ACT candidate Stuart Pedersen who died when his yacht sank in bad weather yesterday. Read...