An advocacy group for the elderly is warning pensioners of a potential scam involving personalised letters.

The mother of a three-year-old allergic to tomatoes says her son could have died after a McDonald's store failed to provide for a burger without ketchup - three times.

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.

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.

Tauranga City Council has made payouts totalling $1.3 million to former staff.

A man who paid for the illegal felling of native trees so he could have an unobstructed harbour view from his spa pool has been fined $45,800.

The Tauranga leg of a controversial World Naked Bike Ride has been labelled a success despite attracting less than 10 participants.

An estimated 2.4 tonnes of drifting sea lettuce is entering Tauranga's Waikareao Estuary on each cycle of the tide during the worst affected times of the year.

Air raid sirens are likely for Tauranga's coastal strip in what looks set to be an about-turn by city leaders.

A Tauranga teenager has admitted his role in the vicious beating and robbery of a city taxi driver.

Two naked fishermen had to make a desperate swim to Matakana Island after their kayak sank in Tauranga Harbour.

The future of Rena will be left in the hands of the Environment Court if the Western Bay of Plenty community can't make up its mind.