The driver who struck and killed an 84-year-old in Tauranga has been sentenced to pay $500 reparation for emotional harm and $132.89 in court costs to her family.

Tauranga Art Gallery has come under fire for displaying two photos that feature coarsely worded messages scrawled in ballpoint beside images of a 1974 gay liberation dance.

Eight Tauranga supermarkets could be forced to stop selling beer and wine for the last hour of trading in order to reduce the harm caused by alcohol.

Tight restrictions controlling where people can freedom camp in Tauranga are to be abolished under far-reaching proposals agreed by the council.

A trip south leaves a glowing impression on Elisabeth Easther.

Two teenagers who viciously bashed and robbed a Tauranga taxi driver in January have been sent to prison.

Party pill king Gary Read has admitted smuggling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of precursor drugs - enough to cook up millions of dollars worth of P.

A fish processing company has been ordered to pay $22,000 after two of its employees suffered frostbite while unloading fish from a vessel last year.

A truck driver's sneeze is thought to have sparked a dramatic crash that brought a power pole and lines down on a Tauranga house.

More than 100 people entered a Tauranga store to buy the controversial synthetic cannabis Kryptonite yesterday morning.

Two teenagers say a new legal high they smoked contained ecstasy - and left them vomiting with no control over their muscles or bodily functions.

Two people were injured this morning in a four vehicle crash in Tauranga which blocked State Highway 2 near the southern end of Welcome Bay Rd.

A partially-sighted Tauranga woman was reduced to pushing aside her fringe to reveal an empty eye socket before a bus driver agreed to issue her a concession fare.

A woman trapped down a steep rock face at the Omanawa Falls was airlifted to safety last night.