Revellers celebrating New Year and the start of a new decade in New Zealand behaved themselves last night.

One thousand litres of hypophosphorus acid, a key ingredient in P manufacturing, was stolen from a factory in January, it was revealed this week.

Shark sightings have prompted lifeguards at holiday hotspots to urge swimmers to take caution.

Our favourite catch masquerades under false colours.

The man found dead on the doorstep of a Gate Pa house yesterday morning was a talented, emerging Maori artist.

Police say the death of a man in suburban Tauranga this morning is suspicious.

A family travelling from Tauranga to Rotorua were followed at speed by a man who repeatedly tried to block, then ram, their vehicle.

The body of a man who died after driving his 4WD off a 100m bank in the Bay of Plenty has been recovered, police say.

A mother with three pre-school children in her car produced a breath alcohol reading more than two and a half times the legal limit.

Andrew Hughes and Olivia Wix are touring the country taking the pulse of the job market. Today they report from their penultimate destination, Tauranga.

A fisherman whose boat sank in the middle of the night was so determined not to surrender it that he swam the waterlogged vessel nearly 1km to safety.

A hunter is fighting for his life in Waikato Hospital after being shot by another hunter south of Taupo last night.

Police say it is too early to say if the death of a cyclist whose body was found in Tauranga Harbour today was due to a hit-and-run.