Tauranga motorcyclist Rhys Middleton was killed by an overseas driver. Now his mother is campaigning for a change in the law allowing visitors to drive in NZ.

It's not just Aucklanders scrambling to afford property.

About 250 students have gathered on the first morning of the 2016 AIMS Games to mark the occasion with breakfast on the shores of

Sometimes Erin O'Neill wished her meth-addicted son would die of an overdose to free him from the scourge.

A Papamoa man immensely proud of the success and efforts of Bay athletes at this year's Olympics has renamed a residential street

Michelle Cutelli first met AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd when she was 20, fast forward 30 years and the pair are an item.

The former AC/DC drummer opens up about his heart attack, new relationship and family.

New data from Statistics NZ and Infometrics' quarterly economic monitor show Bay of Plenty house building consents are now ranked

Seeka has today announced the purchase of two new food products and plans to bring the manufacture of them to the Bay. Seeka, New

Police are praising the efforts of a Tauranga runner who survived becoming lost in the Kaimai Range. The 42-year-old woman had become

Tauranga is about to get a huge new five-theatre multiplex cinema with more than 1000 seats. Mark Taylor, a director of Tauranga

More than half of New Zealand's 41,000 homeless people are now families with children, according to new Otago University research.

Further details have been released about the outlets set to open at the Bay's newest shopping centre. After a decade in the making

A national day recognising New Zealand land wars will not affect local commemorations of Tauranga's two fierce battles. Work is underway

Papamoa dad fled his burning home with two-year-old daughter in his arms and then realised his oldest daughter still might be inside.

It's never too late for love as Western Bay Councillor Margaret Murray-Benge and former Reserve Bank governor and National Party leader

A new four-bedroom, suburban, brick and tile family home in Papamoa has sold for $1 million - a price that ''beat all expectations'' of the company that built it.

Port of Tauranga posted a 2.3 per cent decline in full-year profit, partly reflecting an accounting change but also a sharp decline in log volume.

A Tauranga teacher has labelled an educational ''funding freeze'' as heartbreaking. Teacher's union NZEI has claimed school funding

Because a stranger gave up less than an hour of time, Ella survived a brain tumour.

Nikki Reynolds-Wilson is walking and talking after her lung transplant. The 25-year-old underwent the major surgery last week and

For the first time, five cruise ships will be berthing in Tauranga overnight this season.

Firefighters are this afternoon returning to a house narrowly saved from fire today. The two story Bethlehem house has suffered significant

A 120-year-old walking stick has gone missing and its owner is appealing for help to find it. Bellevue resident Hoppy Coombe was

A Tauranga man has been flown by rescue helicopter to Waikato Hospital, after his condition deteriorated rapidly following a motorcycle crash.

Family of a Tauranga woman killed two weeks ago in a tragic road accident says she "brought light to so many lives" and will be "missed beyond measure".

New speed cameras for accident blackspots across Auckland and Northland.

One of two sisters born with a life-threatening condition has received her long-awaited lung transplant.

Exhausted yachtsman terrified for his life as he battled 'gnarly' seas.

The owners sold the three-bedroom house for a $216,000 profit 18 months after buying it.