The road would remain closed until further assessment was possible during daylight.

Sixteen children and two adults came to grief in the Motu River 118 years ago today.

The regional council's representation review shows an emerging urban/rural split.

About 80 entries are expected to compete at Fagans Valley circuit.

Police attend crash in Paengaroa after logging truck hit a cow on the highway

The chair of the inquiry into Wally Haumaha's appointment has stood down.

Jump in second-half domestic enrolments relieves financially strapped polytechnics.

Calls for chairwoman of inquiry into top cop to resign.

A Bay of Plenty Lotto player has won $333,333 overnight.

A car which has crashed between Tauranga and Rotorua is partially blocking a lane.

Chair and scope of government inquiry into Wally Haumaha's promotion revealed.

Another person was moderately injured after the single-vehicle crash near Tauranga.

Our People: Judge Louis Bidois.

Tauranga man hurt and stranded on Mt Ruapehu says he did not think he would survive.

Mental health inquiry hears public rage and frustration, but confident change will come.

"They are not allegations. It is their truth," - Anihera Zhou Black.

Bay of Plenty identities have been honoured in the 2018 Māori Television Matariki Awards.

Two Bay men are competing in the 2018 Himalayan Challenge - a 21-day car challenge.

Gina Reuben is doing it for the girls ... and the grandmothers.

The degree of shock cannot be understood without a measure of the man who stood so tall.

Concerns have been raised over the safety of Tauranga's highways following a fatal crash.

Shock over paedophile allegations and calls for police to investigate.

Prominent Tauranga leader Awanui Black accused after his death.

The woman raped by Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum says Wally Haumaha should resign.

A local vet has helped save thousands of animals around the Bay of Plenty. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

State Highway 36 between Tauranga and Rotorua has been reopened.

A one-year-old Bay of Plenty boy has been urgently flown to Starship Hospital.

Efforts to rescue the 52-year-old hunter were hampered because of the steep terrain.

Two Bay of Plenty dairies have been targeted by men with knives trying to rob them.

Gang member Tuterangi Moeke jailed for ambushing Mongrel Mob funeral.