Local charities in the Bay of Plenty received support. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Local charities in the Bay of Plenty received support. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Tauranga charities are $300,000 richer thanks to generosity of $10.3m Lotto winner.

A wonky footpath in the Bay of Plenty has become a laughing stock of tradies working near.

Lotto winner Lou Te Keeti talks to Gareth Morgan. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Lou Te Keeti talks to Gareth Morgan. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Tauranga's $10m Powerball winner Lou Te Keeti sat down for a flat white with Gareth Morgan

The voting public gets to decide on the billboard and the promises made on it.

Bay politicians were quick off the mark to erect their election billboards.

The man who died of a gunshot wound on Thursday has been identified by police.

Tauranga is host of a silent film festival. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Tauranga is host of a silent film festival. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Motion Entertainment is going gangbusters. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Cop suffers head injuries in 'unacceptable act of violence'.

The North Island is in for a pounding tonight before the wild weather strikes the south.

Winter storm with damaging gales is set to hit the country in a matter of hours.

Doctors warn a crisis is looming with the dwindling numbers of GPs around the country.

Organised groups of thieves are plaguing Tauranga retailers with bold and brazen attacks.

Rotorua Museum will not open for the foreseeable future. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Rotorua Museum will not open for the foreseeable future. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The difference in pay for rich and poor will feature at a pre-election meeting.

The owners of a block of Rotorua flats have been told to pay debts of nearly $290,000.

Council takes next step towards getting world-class Waikato University research institute.

Taihape residents face fourth day without power, rain and wind to batter country again.

A high-profile building housing six tenants has been sold in Rotorua.

A Treaty claim by Hauraki Maori has boiled over into mass protests in Tauranga

The large family are being evicted for overcrowding their friend's state house.

Hawke's Bay is one of four regions at the receiving end of the $50 million initiative.

Chapman College - soon to be a Bethlehem College wing - will likely be on a new site.

A mood of goodwill could signal changes are afoot for funding a critical Tauranga road.