For local tugboat enthusiast Baden Pascoe, there is something honourable and magical about a vessel that has been a workhorse most of its life.

Alison Shanks has stood on the dais to receive world championship and Commonwealth Games gold medals. But she remembers just as vividly standing at the helm of the Spirit of New Zealand.

One of the two men plucked from rough surf last night would have survived only minutes longer, says the firefighter who mounted the speedy jetski rescue on the Bay of Plenty coast last night.

A decorated soldier's family have spoken of their grief at his death in a crash that broke every rule.

This small Bay of Plenty settlement is a great destination for a long weekend away, finds Diana Clement.

This year's Weet-Bix Tryathlon series kicks off on February 6 in Hamilton. Diana Clement, whose own children took part last year, offers advice aimed at both young and older readers on how to get the best out of the event.

The SPCA is is preparing a case against a person believed to have cut off an eight-week-old Tauranga puppy's ears with a pair of scissors.

An English couple who now call New Zealand home present a grown-up jelly with a berry and rosé twist.

The truck driver killed in a head-on collision in the Bay of Plenty this week has been described as "the rock everybody looked to".

A hospital surgeon is fighting a drink-driving charge after driving home from a bar.

Two men are dead following a crash between a motorcycle and a truck just south of Tauranga this morning.