The driver of a Nissan Skyline involved in a crash with a van near Reporoa which injured nine tourists has been found by police.

An Auckland man has been sentenced to six years and 11 months for stabbing a police officer in the head and offending against his former partner.

Debbie Armstrong eyeballed the man who killed her cyclist husband and through heart-wrenching sobs told him he was selfish, reckless and irresponsible.

The Rotorua community is raising funds for the family of three-year-old Elliott Crimp who is in Starship children's hospital with meningococcal C.

A man has appeared in court this morning charged with causing the death of a Rotorua hunter.

Donations have been flooding in for Rotorua 82-year-old Gavin Hayes after a teenager allegedly stole his car which he can't afford to replace.

A Rotorua man who is alleged to have played sexual "games" with a young girl encouraged her to copy what she saw in adult movies they watched together, a court has heard.

Kara Hurring - ex-partner of the 'Runaway millionaire' - says home detention is no "walk in the park'' and she is counting down the days until the sentence ends.

The third annual Rotorua Zombie Walk will take place later this month despite calls to cancel the event.

A man has been charged in relation to the death of Rotorua man James Wilson Dodds in a hunting incident last month.

A Rotorua man has been sentenced for giving his 6-year-old stepson a black eye by elbowing him in the face while he was having a tantrum over being buckled into his car seat.

A professional Rotorua boxer, who knocked a teenager unconscious and broke his teeth when he wouldn't remove a rugby jersey has been ordered to pay $5000 reparation.

It is too early to say how a man came to be hit by a car during a brawl in Rotorua, police say.