COMMENT: The real political battles this year won't involve the Opposition.

Rainbow Springs nature park marks 85th year in Rotorua by looking to the future.

A roadshow for Rotorua employers is coming to town next month.

Rotorua's Lakeside Cafe will welcome its last visitors tomorrow as lease comes to an end.

High humidity levels over summer have damaged green leafy vegetables.

Avoid tax myths this financial year, says Jeremy Tauri.

Thousands are expected to descend on the new Rotorua store on opening day, March 16.

Region stands to benefit from the launch of the Government's Provincial Growth Fund.

Gift bags and free cupcakes on offer for first customers when store officially opens.

Rotorua dairy farming operation finalist in Maori Excellence in Farming Award for dairy.

Close to 5000 sheep are now being milked twice daily by Maui Milk at Waikino.

Rotorua is hosting MobileTECH 2018.

Tourists spent an estimated $1.8 billion in the region over the last year.

National symposium expected to attract more than 600 delegates and $900k of spending.

The company plans to focus on its digital properties.

The first part of the tourism hub will include hot tubs and a new bypass.

Fed Farmers trying to raise $50k to challenge controversial plan to improve Lake Rotorua.

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese visitors expected as Chinese New Year kicks off.

The contrasting attractions of the central North Island is being promoted to Australians.

Rotorua's landmark Holiday Inn hotel is for sale for the first time in two decades.

The CTU has come to the aid of a mother who couldn't afford a headstone for her son.

If you own a business with a presence on Facebook you're getting a lot less attention.

The number of empty shops has hit an eight-year low in Rotorua's CBD.

A local business has been ordered to pay one of its former employees more than $25,000.

A Rotorua woman talks about her struggles since leaving Richora Group Limited.

Shirley Braun says it's great to run her business at a Rotorua retail hot spot.

Spending in the region is up 5.6 per cent for January, according to new Paymark figures.

Visitors to the Bay of Plenty are believed to have spent $1.8 billion in 2017.

Kawerau Dairy a collaboration between 11 Maori entities and Imanaka's Cedenco Dairy unit

More than 50 jobs at the Rotorua Foodstuffs distribution centre are in limbo.