A stolen car has been used to ram the front of a Rotorua petrol station.

The case of a man accused of killing a woman in Taupo has been called in the High Court.

Resigning Rural Community Board member Euan McLachlan says job offer was too good to miss.

Police say fleeing is selfish and dangerous but numbers up 90 per cent in eight years.

A Rotorua police officer with head injuries is still in a stable condition in hospital.

NZ's 5th largest city still without a museum. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

NZ's 5th largest city still without a museum. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Police are seeking tall, skinny man with a white hoodie after two garage fires.

A man has been flown from Ruatahuna to Rotorua Hospital after being injured in a fall.

A 24-year-old man will appear in court tomorrow charged with attempted murder.

Power will be out overnight for at least 35 customers, as the big clean up continues.

Full recovery of Lakes District Health Board's computer network system months away.

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

A missing woman has been found barefoot but uninjured after six days in the bush.

Whare Aroha Care village is modelled on a renowned Dutch centre, De Hogeweyk.

Rotorua's Turanga Merito is appearing on a new TV reality singing show.

Lakes DHB is no closer to determining when their computer system will be back online.

A 49-year-old woman missing since last week has been airlifted out of deep bush.

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

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

A man who burned down a flat in a fight with his former partner admits assault charge.

Work has started a third major project following a Crown settlement.

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

It could be at least three days before the DHB's computer system is back up and running.

Two local principals are left baffled after new charter school is announced.

The Greenlea Rescue Helicopter went to three callouts yesterday.

A woman riding a motorbike has come off it in Taupo.

Newlyweds Mary and Tyler Guest have bought their first home in Ngongotaha.

Rotorua police have identified a man who drowned in the Kaituna River.

Police want to know how the Henderson man travelled to Rotorua as he didn't have a car.