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Dog attack: 'Nothing' owner could do
The owner of the dogs that mauled a Japanese girl in Murupara was not home during the attack and there was "nothing he could have done" to prevent it, a court has heard.
The owner of the dogs that mauled a Japanese girl in Murupara was not home during the attack and there was "nothing he could have done" to prevent it, a court has heard.
Rotorua's Redwoods mountain-bike trail network through Whakarewarewa Forest has been voted New Zealand's cycling heaven for a second year running.
A Rotorua mother says an extremist Islamic militant group is tarnishing her daughter's name, but she won't be changing it.
Ngongotaha residents have been burying dead ducks found on the shores of Lake Rotorua, and experts say the birds are likely to have died of botulism.
Organisers of a Maori basketball tournament have hit back at accusations it banned non-Maori coaches and staff from entering the competition.
Organisers of a basketball tournament have been called on to allow a girls' team to play after they were refused entry because their coach wasn't Maori.
Dramatic geothermal landscape of Waimangu volcanic rift valley a miniature Mars for space buggy inspired by next robotic rover Nasa plans to land on red planet.
It's been a very busy year for Tamati Coffey and his partner Tim Smith and it's going to get even busier next year when they open their new bar on Eat Streat.
A 50-year-old woman was flown to Rotorua Hospital with serious injuries after a car crashed into a power pole yesterday at 5.45pm.
Nicky Park dishes up five food experiences to try in Rotorua.
When Theo and Laken Archer were born six weeks early they were found to have heart murmurs that were problematic but treatable.
A Bay of Plenty man has been sentenced to more than a decade behind bars for sexual offending against children.
The driver of a grey hatchback is being sought following a collision with a motorbike in Rotorua this morning.
Come dawn on Wednesday, hundreds of trout fishermen will drop their lures into the water or cast fly lines into the current in the Ohau Channel where a shotgun blast signals the start of fishing in the new season.
The mother of Nia Glassie has been released from prison but is under strict conditions including needing official approval before entering into a relationship.
After the double blow that two of their children had been diagnosed with the same cancer, a courageous Rotorua family hopes they have now beaten the disease.
The mother of murdered toddler Nia Glassie has been granted parole, with the Parole Board today saying Lisa Kuka no longer posed a undue risk to the safety of the community.
An Auckland girls' school principal has apologised after one of her students stripped in public - and it's emerged another was involved in a similar scantily-clad dare.
New Zealand's best produce is world class and a first-rate reason to travel, writes Nadia Lim.
A woman had to fight off an intruder who was attempting to get into bed with her early yesterday, police say.
Ex-pat David Dawson has become the first New Zealander to swim solo the length of Loch Lomond in Scotland, the largest inland stretch of water in Great Britain.
At least a dozen families were in a welfare centre last night after one of the longest and most damaging storms in years lashed the country.