A former police officer has escaped a custodial sentence after being arrested on drugs charges on his wedding day.

Greenpeace is trying to keep up pressure on Fonterra to limit its use of palm kernel feed with a public rally outside the Ports of Tauranga.

Farmers have described Greenpeace's occupation of an inbound cargo vessel as 'economic treason.'

Police make second arrest while expressing serious safety concerns for activists aboard a cargo ship off the Tauranga coast.

A Bay of Plenty man turned himself into police for assaulting his wife and son after seeing an anti-domestic violence ad.

A French man who wanted to experience "the real New Zealand" was abducted and raped while travelling alone on a rural backroad.

Hanover Finance and its part-owner Mark Hotchin are taking a small investor to the High Court over $697.96 owed to the man's teenage daughter.