Bay Of Plenty

Rotorua Lakes Council has come up with a potential way to pay the nearly $28 million needed to complete the troubled project, but uncertainties in the funding plan are making some elected officials…

Five people are now facing charges relating to the death of Claude Te Rangiatahua Takao.

Teenage tourist Jesse Langford says he was unaware of how dangerous the island was before setting foot on it.

A man whose disappearance sparked a major search late last year has been found dead.

Bay of Plenty police believe there are video recordings of violent incidents in Ōpōtiki, on the day Mongrel Mob Barbarians boss Steven Taiatini was fatally run over.

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

Tauranga-based producer Justine Murray dons some gumboots and meets some teeny-tiny cockles as she joins a team surveying the Waihi estuary. Professor Kura Paul-Burke is weaving mātauranga Māori and…

Two people accused of manufacturing counterfeit bank notes have been arrested in Rotorua.

More than three and a half years after the horror of the Whakaari-White Island eruption, signs identifying Whakatāne as the gateway to the volcano are still in place.

The company managing a small volcanic island was profiting in the millions before an eruption killed 22 people in 2019, court hears.

Paulette Main is accused of claiming more than $400,000 from a government-funded legal support scheme.

There have been flooded homes, threatened highways, and months of anxiety for Rotorua's lakeside communities. LDR's Laura Smith reports on the widespread impact of months of heavy rain.

Lee Pryor has been delivering post along the Whakatāne coastline for 25 years, but he is not the first in his whānau and now his wife has even joined the ranks.

Managed retreat needs to be seriously considered for homes around the rising Lake Rotomā, Rotorua's mayor says.

Months and months of heavy rain means many of the lakes around Rotorua are reaching levels not seen in 50 years, flooding nearby boat ramps, playgrounds and properties.