A woman who suffered a suspected spinal injury while playing touch rugby was taken to hospital by rescue helicopter last night.

While you're in the 'hood check out some other finds.

Donna McIntyre escapes the city on a campervan holiday.

A police car was rammed by a stolen a vehicle during a high-speed pursuit in Coromandel this morning.

Coromandel township locals are appealing against a High Court decision giving the go-ahead for a supermarket development in the middle of the town's heritage protection zone.

A 3.4 magnitude earthquake has struck the Coromandel Peninsula this morning.

In the first of a three-part series, Ben Crawford takes an exciting weekend road-trip to Coromandel.

Elisabeth Easther may just have to return to Whitianga in September for its famous Scallop Festival.

A former Coromandel real estate agent who forged his clients' initials on a document has been fined $700 - a fraction of the penalty he could have faced under new legislation.

The Pinnacles walk is the perfect way to introduce family and friends to the fun of tramping, writes Katie Furze.

A couple whose signature was forged onto a real estate document by a Coromandel agent are pleased he has been found guilty of forgery.

Coromandel's council has been accused of going against its own efforts to showcase heritage by proposing to dump half of the character town's listed buildings from the register.

A man is in a critical condition after a near drowning in Whangamata, on the southeast coast of the Coromandel Peninsula.

Rural Coromandel was so much fun Alexia Santamaria's kids want a return trip — immediately.

Dead fish, most of them snapper, have washed up on beaches in one of the most beautiful and popular holiday spots in the country.

Mercury Bay's easy waters blink against a high sun and a boatie makes an unhurried return between Tower Rock and Centre Island, a good haul of snapper likely onboard.

New Year's Eve celebrations are in full swing today, with music festivals, parties and fireworks displays happening in all parts of the country.

Fifty years ago, a teacher in Coromandel town predicted to her student that their charming settlement would one day be a suburb of Auckland.

So you've been tasked with organising a hen's party ... one option is fleeing the city and swapping novelty cakes and forced craziness for a weekend of fun and pampering.