A holiday park paying toilet pan taxes of nearly $13,000 a year says it is being unfairly treated by the Western Bay of Plenty District Council. Omokoroa Thermal Holiday Park argued that the number of pans did not accurately reflect its usage of the sewerage system. Solicitor Brian Jones, speaking on behalf of the park's owners, told the...
Read the Full StoryA two-car crash near Bayfair shopping centre this morning resulted in two young children being taken to hospital as a precaution only.
Salvage experts are due to complete a comprehensive sonar sweep of the seabed area surrounding the Rena wreck.
A Welcome Bay man arrested by a police dog handler after he fled on foot following a police road pursuit remains behind bars.
Some of Kairau Ngahau's relatives in their 80s and 90s had told him they would be "better off dead".
The meat workers union began its challenge over the legality of the Talley's Affco lockout yesterday. The challenge will last five days in the Employment Court.
A Court of Appeal decision has opened the way for carers to be paid after a long-standing battle between parents of special needs children and the Government.
When Jonathan White (Channing Tatum) escaped from the troubled Projects housing development in New York, he thought he could put its horrors behind him.
The back aches and eyes water contemplating it, but the impending mind games loom largest for Mt Maunganui's Luke McGruer, Mahdi Te Heuheu and John Templeton as...
Barry O'Neil, appointed as chief executive of Kiwifruit Vine Heath (KVH) to replace John Burke, wants to move to a new level of fighting Psa.
Teenager Lori-Lea Waiora Te Wini has pleaded guilty to the 2008 murder of a retired Opotiki schoolteacher, four days before her retrial was set to begin.In the High...
A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited...
The property markets in Tauranga, Mount Maunganui and Papamoa dipped in April.