The widow and daughter of a Tauranga man who was beaten to death have described the bloody aftermath they encountered after the attack.

The trial for four men charged in relation to the death of Tauranga man Gary Clayton Kimura, who was attacked at his Bellevue home in 2011, began in the High Court at Hamilton this morning.

A recent review of Tauranga City Council's Mobile Shops Policy included a ban of mobile food shops trading in the suburbs, which meant no more ice-cream vans.

Cindy McQuade chooses the latter and finds a hot spot on the outskirts of Tauranga.

The driver who struck and killed an 84-year-old in Tauranga has been sentenced to pay $500 reparation for emotional harm and $132.89 in court costs to her family.

Tauranga Art Gallery has come under fire for displaying two photos that feature coarsely worded messages scrawled in ballpoint beside images of a 1974 gay liberation dance.

Eight Tauranga supermarkets could be forced to stop selling beer and wine for the last hour of trading in order to reduce the harm caused by alcohol.

The Tauranga man accused of holding up the Lenz Superette with a pistol has been released on bail after appearing in court.

A Filipino crewman working aboard a logging ship at Port of Tauranga suffered serious lacerations this morning after a crane-operated winch wire struck him across his chest and neck.

A trip south leaves a glowing impression on Elisabeth Easther.

Two teenagers who viciously bashed and robbed a Tauranga taxi driver in January have been sent to prison.

Party pill king Gary Read has admitted smuggling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of precursor drugs - enough to cook up millions of dollars worth of P.

An advocacy group for the elderly is warning pensioners of a potential scam involving personalised letters.

The mother of a three-year-old allergic to tomatoes says her son could have died after a McDonald's store failed to provide for a burger without ketchup - three times.

A fish processing company has been ordered to pay $22,000 after two of its employees suffered frostbite while unloading fish from a vessel last year.

A truck driver's sneeze is thought to have sparked a dramatic crash that brought a power pole and lines down on a Tauranga house.