While visitor numbers were up, local infrastructure was put under severe pressure.

Whangamatā Harbour Care raises concern about potential mangrove invasion.

Police reduce office hours to cope with staff illness.

Pauanui girl sets record for youngest winner.

OPINION: Peninsula hosted several big events, but it's not all good news.

This year celebrates 60 years of the Ford Mustang.

The lifeguard team has been recognised in the New Zealand Rescue of the Month Awards.

What's up in the Coromandel — short and sweet.

The local community says goodbye to "a lovely person" and "exceptional editor".

Whangamata Golf Club in the Coromandel is raffling a trip to the Masters.

A large orange tree broke the woman's fall after she jumped from a second-storey window.

Investigators are at the scene this morning.

He is barefoot, balding but with long, thinning white hair and a bushy white moustache.

Motor neurone disease research fundraiser spans the globe.

'We were all trying to get home safely and no one wanted to die on the way home.'

Rob Hewitt has reflected on his own ordeal of floating alone at sea for 72 hours.

Will Fransen spent nearly 24 hours drifting in the ocean without even a life jacket.

Police say two people were arrested after calls of concern from the public.

Plus, 'tonnes of shark sightings' in busy day for Bay of Plenty and Coromandel lifeguards.

Dr Michael Miller is acknowledged for services to rural health in the New Year Honours.

Motorists can travel the quick way across the Coromandel Peninsula once again.

Emergency staff were called to the rescue of a person who was trapped in an elevator.

LandSAR personnel are concentrating their search in an area from Wentworth Valley.

He did not return from his travel to the Wentworth Valley area on Sunday.

Volunteers scoured an area of forest near Whangamatā for the remains of Heidi Paakkonen.

Coromandel recorded the dubious honour of the biggest drop in retail spending nationwide.

34 years after tourists' disappearance, podcaster hopes to bring her family closure.

Winner not a regular player and the $1 million was “totally unexpected”.

'His laugh will be forever echoed around the park.'

Police search and rescue personnel and volunteers were involved in the search.