A man has appeared in the Rotorua District Court charged with abducting a 3-year-old girl from a Rotorua early childhood centre for sex. John Tekuru, 19,... Read More

Banks have responded to the Government's expectation to better protect Kiwi consumers from scams by introducing stronger safeguards and a compensation scheme,... Read More

A new Bay of Plenty police officer has found his 'calling” after graduating from Wing 383 in Porirua on Thursday. Constable Ethan Semple is one of six... Read More

A teen who took part in a violent and unprovoked street attack, coward-punching one of his victims, has narrowly avoided jail after a judge ruled it would... Read More

A group of residents who have been campaigning against wire median barriers on State Highway 2 in the Bay of Plenty claim a container truck was seen driving... Read More

The failure of a cot's structural integrity has been identified as the sole cause of a young baby's tragic death after he became trapped between the mattress... Read More

A doctor at the centre of an investigation involving workplace sex allegations denies any intimate activity took place there and says the prosecution has... Read More

A second 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with murder following the death of a man in Kawerau. The teenager is the third person arrested in relation... Read More

Warning: This story contains content some may find disturbing. A 13-year-old girl was brought to New Zealand and enslaved, with a paediatrician saying the... Read More

A Rotorua kōhanga reo has been targeted by burglars, with food, televisions, cutlery and Easter Eggs among the items stolen. Aukaha News reported Te... Read More

A woman who scammed Facebook Marketplace users has admitted taking hundreds of dollars off buyers before ghosting them and failing to hand over goods. Tania... Read More

The identity of a Tauranga man accused of stealing property from an ambulance and unlawfully possessing police property has been suppressed. The defendant... Read More