Firefighters are heading to the house on Kairua Rd, after receiving multiple calls.

A treasure trove of bird's eye-view photographs taken since the 1930s are now available to the public online. The new website shows

84yo woman evacuates from retirement village - and is rescued by a motorist on a state highway. But where was everyone else?

"Alcohol-fuelled madness" on a Tauranga road led to the deaths of two young teens on Christmas Day 2011, a court has been told.

Two women had to run for their lives after the car they were in burst into flames and started a 2000sq m scrub fire that threatened homes in Welcome Bay.

The daughter of a woman already in jail for a "nasty" love-triangle attack will join her mother behind bars.

A mother dog howled all night after she fished her six dead puppies out of an estuary after they had been dumped in a shopping bag.