The director has agreed to become the first patron of Opotiki's De Luxe Theatre, in the eastern Bay of Plenty.

Black Power members say they want to track down the attacker of a boy, 4, so they can deal to him before police.

Police are shocked that a woman whose daughter was seriously injured by a drunk driver last year was herself caught driving while over the limit.

An eyewitness to an attack on school principal and councillor Hawea Vercoe, told a court his head was kicked like a rugby ball.

Tsunami warnings look to be cancelled as beach-goers who waited all day outside the water start heading home.