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"It's like rugby on wheels": Bay athletes selected for Team NZ Roller Derby World Cup

Athletes from Tauranga, Rotorua, and Whakatāne have been named in Team NZ Roller Derby.

The 'heartland for Māori culture and enterprise' to celebrate Māori business

Applications and nominations for the 2025 awards are open until February 14.

Tauranga-based e-motorcycle maker Ubco tipped into receivership, ex-boss fires shots

All staff terminated as bad year for tech continues.

'We dug up graves': Kiwi lawyer on the cases that will always stay with him

Satchie Govender: 'They were having a barbecue while she was digging her own grave'.

‘Quite unusual’: Woman’s extravagant lengths to get free rent

After being arrested, Christine Scott carried out more offending.

Five arrests over $1m damage, theft in the Kinleith Forests

Several gates across the forests had been cut open to allow alleged offenders access.

‘It’s everywhere’: Influencers push back at $20,000 offer to promote online gambling

'We are counteracting that and saying to our people there is another way.'

Overseas surfer selling former police station hidden in the middle of the bush

Cop shop was turned into a three-bedroom home after being shifted from Kaitaia to Houhora.

Bit of a Mission: Why international artists aren’t coming to the Bay in 2025

A lull in Mission and stadium concerts in Hawke's Bay is likely to continue through 2025.

'She had all of her life to live': Parents fight for 'justice' after 15yo dies in crash

'He’s destroyed our lives.'

Boy seen struggling in harbour rescued by vehicle ferry skipper

Boysie-James Siosiua was pulled from the harbour after trying to retrieve a basketball.

The golf club where youth and community are the focus

It’s been a labour of love building the course to what it is today.

From MP to wellness guru: Anna Lorck’s radical new life

Lorck says her new life is a "contrast from the life that I was leading”.

Organic beef farm sees biodiversity flourish

Hamish Browne and Robyn Budd are now in their eighth year of farm ownership.

Opinion: Tweed, shrimp cocktails and steamy nights

Opinion: There had never been so many tweed sports coats in one place at one time.

Bullied prisoner slashes another inmate's face with razor from eye to chin

Reihana Cooper tied makeshift weapons to his hands before the attack.

Five hospitalised as crash closes SH2 near Waihī

St John sent five ambulances and two helicopters.

‘I can do whatever I want’: Shoplifter threatens to rape staffer during theft

The 44-year-old smelled strongly of alcohol and had slurred speech.