Primary teachers who trained after 1996 earn $12,000 more than those who trained earlier.

Difference between Bay of Plenty fuel prices ranges 20c, if you know where to shop.

Mum-to-be shares her thoughts on her own and other famous Kiwi births this year.

Angus just won the North Island Secondary School mountain biking champs.

A Tauranga mum warns other parents after discovering an earwig in her fruit salad.

Police are looking for a stolen scooter

There was an ambulance at the scene and police were directing traffic.

Three men have been rescued after their boat capsized south of Tauranga.

The Tauranga Crossing and Bayfair developments are both due to be completed next year.

Death certificates omitted names of children who'd died before their parents.

COMMENT: National's leader made an abysmal job of explaining what is going on.

Meanwhile, dog owners argue for more pooch-friendly spaces, not fewer.

A council committee has given the 77-house plan a stamp of approval.

Many people will be coming home to unemptied yellow-stickered glass crates

Are you sacrificing sleep to meet society's expectations?

NZ police seize bank account in global investigation to target notorious Kinahan cartel.

122 properties – in hindsight – were unnecessarily fixed up and their residents moved out.

Peters on the 'second longest-surviving political party that has not changed its name'.

The Jacksons, Kool and the Gang, Village People to perform at Mount Maunganui.

New speed camera snaps speeding motorists with $30,000 in fines during its first month.

It's the fastest growing language taught in primary schools. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The worker was seriously injured after he was hit by a rolling log.

Tauranga police are looking for a man considered to be dangerous after a serious assault.

Three men have admitted attempting to dig up a body - an order by gang members

A Bay of Plenty strawberry provider hopes locals will continue to support growers.

The identity of a man charged with a stabbing-related killing has been suppressed

"It is unacceptable to inflict this level of suffering on an elderly animal" - SPCA.

A 22-year-old man has been charged with murder in relation to the death of a Papamoa man.

Since mortuary services closed in Tauranga 694 have been done out of the region to 2017.

A neighbour saw a "young guy covered in blood" who yelled at him to call police.