This week is being dubbed an important one for kiwifruit growers, with the hearing on the EPAs recommendation to ban Hi-Cane taking place. Hydrogen cyanamide... Read More

A Rotorua resident has spent his own time removing masses of rubbish from a local stream including a whopping 87.5 dumped tyres in only one day. Along with... Read More

Survivors of the Whakaari White Island disaster will give accounts of how the tragedy forever changed their lives, when the sentencing of companies guilty of... Read More

Scion's Rotorua headquarters have gone head-to-head with the Silicon Valley campus of top tech company Google - and come out on top. But there are no hard... Read More

A New Zealand/Ireland joint research programme starting this month aims to better understand methane emissions from pasture-based farm systems. The four-year... Read More

‘Discovery tours' will be organised for joint Māori landowners in the Bay this year to showcase low carbon land use options and help ignite the Māori... Read More

New Zealand's 2024 kiwifruit harvest has kicked off with the first crop picked in Auckland, and more kiwifruit to be picked around New Zealand over the coming... Read More

Mounties can now check local air quality in real time following the addition of 11 extra air sensors to the Bay of Plenty Regional Council monitoring network. The... Read More

Research is underway to determine how salt marshes and mangroves could protect Bay of Plenty's coastline from climate change - and how a ‘resilience credit'... Read More

Last summer seemed to be dominated by flooding but this year, fires are making headlines. A state of local emergency was declared for Christchurch City, including... Read More

A Bay of Plenty beach community is split over the rules for quad bike use at the Waiotahe Drifts subdivsion, with those in favour saying it could save lives. The... Read More

A Fire Plan outlines the particular fire risk conditions that exist or are likely to exist for a specific area, the local policies and procedures for the management... Read More