Manuka honey industry, enhancing IT and entrepreneurship, and promoting cultural tourism all identified.

Tyson Matenga was evading police when he crashed head-on into an oncoming vehicle.

Group hailing from Whale Rider territory take top kapa haka title

After four days of intense competition Te Kapa Haka o Whangara Mai Tawhiti were crowned the Te Matatini 2017 champions.

Gisborne woman seeks help to create a special memorial to her trucker husband and son, killed together in a road crash.

Labour says it would marry Gisborne's need for jobs with the country's need for housing.

Liv Fountain is desperately raising funds for life-changing spinal surgery in the US which will not only improve her spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, but could make her dream to walk up steps a reality. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

New Zealand is now experiencing the worst of the fire season, a top officer says, with a dangerous combination of high temperatures and low relative humidity creating tinder-dry conditions across eastern hot-spots.

Police were alerted to the crash, on the corner of Childers Rd and Lowe St, at about 12.40pm.

It's a perfect summer's day in Waitangi and Auckland, but messy weather with gales and rain are expected in some parts of the country.

A diver has died this morning after an accident north of Gisborne.

The sun has come out to play and is here to stay, with a scorcher of a long weekend across the country.

Wairoa District Mayor Craig Little says 2017 is about getting back to basics to spruce up shop fronts, roads, and footpaths to improve the town's visual identity. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

We can expect normal temperatures in the coming months but less rain.

The weather's going to be (finally) glorious for most of the country.

Mayors in three of New Zealand's poorest districts - the Far North, Rotorua and Gisborne - want to take over central Government agencies in their areas to eradicate "entrenched poverty".

While the eastern region swelters in one of the most rain-deprived Januaries in more than a century, some western areas have been drenched.

An Australian lawyer is searching for Kiwi victims of serial paedophile Catholic priest Father Denis McAlinden. Alyce Johnson of

A man was attacked and his car stolen in the incident, police say.

Find out what place will be 31C on Auckland Anniversary weekend and read our list of the top five places to bask in the sun.

An 8-year-old boy who died alongside his father in a truck crash in the Hawke's Bay wanted to drive trucks just like his dad, family say.

Police have named the man killed in Wednesday's crash.

Members of a shearing gang were injured this morning when the van they were in left the road and smashed into a tree.

Relatives of a cyclist killed in a crash this morning arrived at the scene.

Two houses were searched and a number of people were spoken to. No arrests have been made as yet.

A man has been flown to hospital after being hit by a large fish bin onboard a fishing trawler north-east of Gisborne.

Archbishop Brown Turei, one of the leaders of the Anglican Church in New Zealand and Polynesia, will be remembered at a funeral tomorrow.

An elderly Gisborne woman's handbag was stolen while she took holy communion at a city church on Sunday and other church parishioners have been warned about it.

Firefighters are returning to the scene of a major scrub fire that gutted a house, destroyed a shed and forced the evacuation of baches and homes in the Hawke's Bay.

The three children aged five, eight and nine have been referred to Youth Aid.