Dogs will be allowed to have the last splash at Memorial Pool before the complex closes its doors for the winter season.

Andrew Buenter admits the fare at the Mt Maunganui Returned and Services Association used to be a standing joke.

A Maori academic who died suddenly during a celebratory occasion at the University of Waikato is being remembered as a passionate advocate and educator.

Export kiwifruit on hold after traces of mechanical lubricant were found on some plastic tray liner.

A financial adviser with clients in the Waikato and the Bay of Plenty has pleaded guilty in the Tauranga District Court to a $1.4 million fraud.

New figures show a surge in the numbers of Aucklanders fleeing the city in favour of Tauranga. Reporter Jamie Morton wonders what has taken them so long.

A man is in a critical condition tonight after being hit by a truck in the early hours of this morning in Tauranga.

A man has been flown to Tauranga Hospital after his car rolled down a bank in the wider Bay of Plenty.

Tauranga has been deluged by torrential rain this morning with a street closing to vehicles due to flooding.

"There is a steady increase of women being abducted, tied up, put in the boot of cars, taken away to the bush or the beach, or their partners having utensils to bury them."

Good old Auckland Domestic. I was glad to see a Dunkin' Donuts had opened down the regional end of the terminal.

Five years ago, Suzy Atkin made the goal that she would own her own home by the time she was 30. Now at 30, her dream seems further away than ever.

A dog owner at war with her Auckland neighbours has progressed to a new home - and a brand new controversy - a little further south.

Patricia Greig has a fairy tale stay at a luxury country house near Tauranga.

The body of a foreign 22-year-old male was recovered from the surf at Mt Maunganui this morning.

A quick-thinking 11-year-old boy and a computer chair saved precious time and quality of life when Vinnie Smith suffered a stroke on Christmas Eve.

The police dive quad has arrived in Tauranga to help in the search for an Indian man who went missing while swimming at a popular Tauranga lake.

A 73-year-old woman was seriously injured when she was thrown from a horse-drawn cart and kicked in the stomach today.

Auckland prices see family looking further afield to find a home

A Tauranga man has handed himself into police after footage was released connecting him to an assault on a woman in a shop in the Bay of Plenty.

An iwi consortium bidding to buy Tauranga's state houses has chosen a Masterton liquor trust to manage the houses if it wins the tender.

Missing Tauranga woman Alice Campbell, aged 30, has made contact with Police who have confirmed she is safe.

A little girl missing in Mount Maunganui overnight has been located safe and well.

October 1 will forever be etched into the minds of Mount Maunganui residents - it was the day a tragedy brought an entire city together.

Police want help finding a 24-year-old woman missing since Sunday.

A person has died after being hit by a train at a railway crossing in the Tauranga suburb of Otumoetai.