'I like fat. There's no fat on the blessed meat now.' So said Audrey Duthie when asked the secret to living a long life.

A Bay of Plenty sexual abuse victim is hiding in her home after ACC sent her patient file to a local dairy.

Some of the old-style lures are as good as the flashy ones that are now so popular.

A man who claimed his 4-year-old son was assaulted for wearing a red shirt associated with a rival gang may have concocted an elaborate lie, a court has heard.

About 400 people turned out to pay their last respects to Moko the dolphin at his funeral procession and memorial service in Whakatane today.

The debate over Moko's final resting place has been settled with the friendly bottlenose dolphin to be buried...

The dolphin carcass believed to be that of Moko was removed from Matakana Island by DOC staff this afternoon and will be sent to Massey University for an autopsy.

Team New Zealand is among dozens of organisations that have lost their charitable status in a crackdown by the new Charities Commission.

Whakatane District Council has an estimated $3.2 million clean-up bill following last week's flood that left more than 110 houses uninhabitable.

The captain of a fishing trawler befriended by Moko reckons the tunes of AC/DC might be part of the allure.

The director has agreed to become the first patron of Opotiki's De Luxe Theatre, in the eastern Bay of Plenty.

Black Power members say they want to track down the attacker of a boy, 4, so they can deal to him before police.

Police are shocked that a woman whose daughter was seriously injured by a drunk driver last year was herself caught driving while over the limit.