Severe Thunderstorm Warning Area: Central Hawkes Bay, Hastings Forecast: At 02:15 pm, MetService weather radar detected ...

A 12-year-old boy with autism won a national golf competition in New Zealand after having played only three full rounds of golf. Bayleigh Teepa-Tarau, playing with borrowed clubs and wearing ...

Police have arrested a second person for aggravated robbery and assault after the death of a man in Tāneatua this week. A 28-year-old man appeared in the Ōpōtiki District Court yesterday, and ...

Eastern Bay of Plenty Police have launched a homicide investigation following the death of a 57-year-old man in Waikato Hospital. The man had been admitted to hospital on Monday after being assaulted ...

She could see the water rising - and there was nothing she could do. Antoinette Spencer, 70, saw it come down the passageway towards her. Then it came through the back door and ranch-sliders. "The ...

Emergency services are attending a serious crash on Taneatua Road, Whakatane. The single vehicle crash was reported at around 6.45pm. Two people have serious injuries and the Serious Crash Unit has ...

Police have arrested two people in relation to a serious assault on McKenzie Street in Taneatua on Sunday. Two men, aged 31 and 26, appeared in Whakatane District Court today charged with Wounding ...

McKenzie St in TÄ neatua where a man had his hand severed in a serious assault on Sunday. Stuff / Stuff Trustworthy, accurate and reliable news stories are more important now than ever. Support our ...

Police are trawling through hours and hours of security camera footage to piece together the circumstances which led to a fatal shooting in Auckland on Monday. Detectives are looking for a ...

At least one person has died after a crash on State Highway 2, Taneatua, on Monday afternoon. The fatal collision between a truck and a car happened about 1.4km south of Stanley Rd just before 3pm.

New Zealand police acted unlawfully and unreasonably during armed raids near a small Maori settlement in 2007, an independent report has said. Police accepted the findings of the Independent Police ...

Work is now underway to realign a section of State Highway 2 (SH2) near Taneatua, says the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA). NZTA’s Bay of Plenty state highways manager, Brett Gliddon says this realignment ...