Miss Rotorua returns! Gowns and Geysers season 2 gets filming
The launch of Miss Rotorua 2022 was held at the Prince's Gate Hotel last Sunday.
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Programme to help Ngāti Whakaue-owned businesses
Ringa Rautia is a programme to help strengthen and grow Ngāti Whakaue-owned businesses.
Trust supports community with $3.7m of grants
The 250 grants approved in the past financial year reflect Rotorua Trust's key focus areas
School musical production brimming with toe-tappers
Rotorua Boys' High School presents 'In the Heights', with Rotorua Girls' High School.
Bittersweet return: International visitors return but staffing crisis bites
It is the first time in more than two years the border will be fully open.
'She is at peace now': Visionary Māori health leader dies
Inez Kingi was a matriarch and a visionary. Now the 91-year-old is at peace.
Audacious chief's sons continued their father's legacy
Kāhu ki Rotorua: Tamatekapua was one of the most audacious chiefs of the Arawa people.
Raukura production: Curtains up on high energy musical
Kāhu ki Rotorua: Musical chance to showcase talent of Raukura students.
Champion talker the face of diversity in newsrooms
Kāhu ki Rotorua: Meet Atutahi Potaka-Dewes, a student of the Te Rito programme.
Te Arawa kapa haka group to pay tribute to fallen in Italy
Kāhu ki Rotorua: Group is participating in an International Folklore Festival.
'Outrageous': Former mayor on Rotorua reserves proposal
Another submitter said councillors needed the courage to approve the proposal.
Woman suffers serious burns after sinkhole opens up at Rotorua's Whakarewarewa Village
The husband received moderate injuries trying to pull his wife from the sinkhole.
Luke Kirkness: The disease risk that requires our full attention
OPINION: We've learnt first-hand how infectious diseases spread and the impact they have.
The Premium Debate: Lack of competition fuels price gouging
OPINION: This isn't the time to be making record profits
Squash pair aim to retain title: Local athletes Commonwealth Games-bound
Rotorua and eastern BOP athletes competing at Birmingham Commonwealth Games revealed.
Rotorua fluoridation directive: Cannot 'drink our way' to oral health
The director general of health ordered 14 councils to fluoridate their water on Wednesday.
Rotorua café smokes competition with brisket toastie
Chef Rich Johns has won the title with his 'Get Smoked, Pickled + Toasted' creation.
Father who beat 5-year-old son to death loses fight to get jail term reduced
The father appealed his sentenced on the grounds he didn't use "gratuitous violence".
'Miserable morning': Rotorua liquor store targeted again
It's the second time in two weeks the store has been targeted.
Wastewater test results show gap in Bay Covid-19 case data
Experts agree self-reporting could lead to an undercount of the virus' spread.
Weather eases in Bay after slips close multiple highways
Whitianga and Te Puke recorded their wettest days in more than a year.
Steamers squad for this year is named
All Blacks Aidan Ross and Sam Cane feature alongside 35 other men in the squad.
'Penthouse to craphouse': Reserve proposal hearings heat up
Rotorua mayor Steve Chadwick says she found some submissions 'offensive'
Jo Raphael: Scumbag ram-raiders' rampage needs to be stopped
OPINION: Scumbag ram-raiders need to be deterred from their trails of destruction
Revealed: Daily average of Covid hospitalisations
'We could be overwhelmed if the community numbers become much higher.'
Former septic tank driver fined for 'deliberate' discharge of thousands of litres of sewage
The smell of sewage pouring into the Orini Canal made passers-by retch.
Reserves for housing proposal a 'betrayal'
Some are concerned the proposal would see Fenton St's problems transported to the suburbs.
Felix Desmarais: One simple trick can steer ABs to success
OPINION: If we want to win the Rugby World Cup, perhaps we should do it in cars.
Hospice dance couple can't wait to hit stage
Kyle Fergusson-Hughes and Nanu Turner-Sarah discovering new muscles on dance journey.
Hope new ministry will listen to disabled people
"At the moment people don't think about disability until it affects them."
Submission hearings begin on proposal to sell Rotorua reserves for housing
Two more hearing dates were added due to the large number of submitters wishing to speak.
'Very personal': Youngest councillor considered not standing due to abuse
"I would almost say the current political climate ... it almost feels more hostile."
Sparks not seeking re-election: 'It's worthwhile to serve your community'
The Kawerau district councillor won't be standing for re-election.