Auckland refugees Andrea Cummerfield and Andrew Nalder love Auckland, but also find it "busy and expensive". Last December the couple shifted to Tauranga.

The man was hit while on the Tauranga Harbour Bridge, on State Highway 2, just after 4:30am on Friday.

A man is in a critical condition tonight after being hit by a truck in the early hours of this morning in Tauranga.

A man has been flown to Tauranga Hospital after his car rolled down a bank in the wider Bay of Plenty.

Tauranga has been deluged by torrential rain this morning with a street closing to vehicles due to flooding.

"There is a steady increase of women being abducted, tied up, put in the boot of cars, taken away to the bush or the beach, or their partners having utensils to bury them."

Good old Auckland Domestic. I was glad to see a Dunkin' Donuts had opened down the regional end of the terminal.

Five years ago, Suzy Atkin made the goal that she would own her own home by the time she was 30. Now at 30, her dream seems further away than ever.

When asked to sum up what 50 years of marriage is like, Tauranga man Murray Ellis did not pause for a second.

The body recovered from the surf at Mt Maunganui has been identified as belonging to a young Nepalese man.

The body of a foreign 22-year-old male was recovered from the surf at Mt Maunganui this morning.

A quick-thinking 11-year-old boy and a computer chair saved precious time and quality of life when Vinnie Smith suffered a stroke on Christmas Eve.

The police dive quad has arrived in Tauranga to help in the search for an Indian man who went missing while swimming at a popular Tauranga lake.

A 73-year-old woman was seriously injured when she was thrown from a horse-drawn cart and kicked in the stomach today.

Auckland prices see family looking further afield to find a home

A Tauranga man has handed himself into police after footage was released connecting him to an assault on a woman in a shop in the Bay of Plenty.

An iwi consortium bidding to buy Tauranga's state houses has chosen a Masterton liquor trust to manage the houses if it wins the tender.

October 1 will forever be etched into the minds of Mount Maunganui residents - it was the day a tragedy brought an entire city together.

Police want help finding a 24-year-old woman missing since Sunday.

A person has died after being hit by a train at a railway crossing in the Tauranga suburb of Otumoetai.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a motorcyclist suffered head injuries in a crash in the Bay of Plenty last night.

Tauranga police have asked for the public's help to find Elisha Jade Smith, 16, who went missing on Tuesday, September 1.

The Government says it intends to sell a majority of Tauranga's state houses to a single buyer or consortium.

Car imports should be moved from Auckland to Northport at Marsden Pt, says Ports of Tauranga boss Mark Cairns.

Mature jobseekers in New Zealand often face prejudice when searching for work because of their age, a new survey has found.

Port of Tauranga felt the chill wind of a commodities downturn in its result for the year to June 30, posting a modest 1 per cent improvement in net profit to $79.1 million.

Tauranga woman who's struggled to find work says she wants to reach out and offer her support to those in similar situations, after emails from well-wishers.

A humbling and fitting farewell for war hero, father and friend Les Munro was held in Tauranga this afternoon.

Aucklanders are leaving in such numbers that half the house sales in the Waikato outside Hamilton and nearly a quarter in Tauranga are to those from the big city.