A hospital surgeon is fighting a drink-driving charge after driving home from a bar.

Two men are dead following a crash between a motorcycle and a truck just south of Tauranga this morning.

In the development heyday of the 1950s, holiday homes shot up on narrow, sandy fingers of land around New Zealand's coastline.

A 6-year-old girl was found home alone in her Tauranga house yesterday after both of her parents had left for work.

Lifeguards have closed Mt Maunganui beach after a surfer's close encounter with a shark.

A mother dog howled all night after she fished her six dead puppies out of an estuary after they had been dumped in a shopping bag.