Neighbours of a house fire in Welcome Bay say the house had been empty for months.

Three crews fought a fire at Tauranga home.

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 provincial towns and cities are well below their 2007 peaks, but there are signs of life south of the Bombays, reports Bruce Morris.

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.