10:00am Tue 12 Aug, 2025
Bay of Plenty students have come together to raise awareness about how to stay safe on the region's 86 railway level crossings, by always expecting the unexpected... Read More
07:00am Tue 12 Aug, 2025
Twelve concrete beams are to be lifted into place to form the connection across the Tauranga Eastern Link Toll Road this month. NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi... Read More
07:37am Mon 11 Aug, 2025
Two people are in police custody after road spikes were deployed to stop an alleged stolen vehicle. Police received reports of a stolen vehicle driving dangerously... Read More
04:00pm Sun 10 Aug, 2025
Emergency services were called to a crash on Te Puke Quarry Road, Pāpāmoa, around 3.30pm involving one vehicle, police said. Hato Hone St John also attended... Read More
02:00pm Sun 10 Aug, 2025
The busy intersection of State Highway 5 and State Highway 28 Harwoods Road, east of Tīrau, will be made safer with the construction of a three-leg roundabout,... Read More
02:25pm Wed 06 Aug, 2025
Update, 5.20pm: State Highway 5, south of Rotorua has reopened after it was closed due to a vehicle fire earlier this afternoon. The highway was closed between... Read More
11:13am Mon 04 Aug, 2025
Police are advising motorists to take care around a crash on Hewletts Road and to expect delays. A spokeswoman said police received a report of a two-vehicle... Read More
10:33am Mon 04 Aug, 2025
Police have named the woman who died following a crash at Ātiamuri, southwest of Rotorua. She was Joni Tuhakaraina, 53, from Tokoroa. Emergency services... Read More
03:47pm Fri 01 Aug, 2025
Update, 5.30pm: A motorcyclist has died after colliding with a school bus in the rural Bay of Plenty community of Ruatoki, south of Whakatāne. Police said... Read More
07:07am Wed 30 Jul, 2025
A section of State Highway 2 in the Bay of Plenty is closed after a milk truck rolled late last night. The truck rolled between Matatā and Edgecumbe about... Read More
11:00am Tue 29 Jul, 2025
A 10-year-old boy who died in a crash near Taupō has been remembered as being 'full of life” with dreams of joining the navy like his koro. Jax Tauroa-Wall... Read More
07:00pm Mon 28 Jul, 2025
Five people have died on Tauranga and Western Bay of Plenty roads this year, prompting a plea by the district's road policing manager for people to remember... Read More