Mariana Morrison vying for love in the new season of The Bachelor.

Top Maori businesses and business leaders are being encouraged to enter a prestigious annual award.

Rotorua open water swimmers Glyn Eason and David Blackmore are training for the World Masters Games.

A Rotorua teenager has signed with an NRL club.

Flood waters ripped through driveways, north of Rotorua, angering residents.

Two people in a critical condition after a crash near Turangi.

Little rain overnight is good news for sodden region.

The country saw 92,000 visitors from Germany and 215,000 from Britain last year.

UPDATE: Utuhina Stream has burst its banks and is endangering multiple properties. A Pukehangi Rd resident said he had checked the

Heavy rain is expected in the region today and tomorrow.

The family of an autistic 6-year-old who went missing for four hours have spoken of the "greatest relief" when police found him at Rainbow Springs.

The trial continues in the Rotorua District Court of a man charged with abducting a teenage girl.

A detective has been grilled by a defendant over what he was doing at a Bay of Plenty property on the day of an alleged shootout that left four police offers injured last year.

A teen has told a court that as a 12-year-old boy he was too scared to tell his female sports coach to stop when she fondled him intimately.

Rotorua's Lakeside Concert has been forced to move indoors, for the first time in its 21-year history - and the popular fireworks display canned.

It's renovations, rather than new builds, making up most of the residential building consents issued in Rotorua last month.

A bit of wet weather will not put a dampener on this Saturday's 21st Lakeside concert at the Village Green.

A gun was pulled on her when her father and cousins arrived at the Rotorua house where she was being held, a teenager at the centre

Charlotte Hamilton says doctors told her the quick treatment from the First Response unit saved her from potential paralysis.

After selling their modest place in Auckland, this family now lives in a small 'mansion' in Rotorua.

The first day of the trial of a man accused of shooting four police officers in the Bay of Plenty last year has been adjourned at the Hamilton High Court.

National Party has stunned its critics with a plan for national superannuation.

A trial is underway involving a man with name suppression charged with sexual assault offences and abduction.

Tristram Clayton heads down to Rotorua to check out how the traffic times compare to Auckland.

A local tells us why living in Lynmore is so special.

New figures reveal the suburbs which have increased in value the most since the market peak.

David Curry-Wood is loving life in Rotorua after selling his Auckland home. The former teacher, who now works as a bus driver, sold

Rachel Browne used Park Run Rotorua to help her back onto her feet after injury. Locals and tourists alike gather to run 5kms every Saturday morning. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Rachel Browne used Park Run Rotorua to help her back onto her feet after injury. Locals and tourists alike gather to run 5kms every Saturday morning. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A Lake Tarawera man says his 3-year-old daughter could have been killed when a slab of fertiliser fell from the sky.