Weather, transport, everything you need to know ahead of the royal couple's arrival.

Teams of workers and volunteers are hard at work getting the city ready.

Karena and Kasey Bird will be catering for the royals in Rotorua.

Two groups and four soloists will perform for the royal couple in Rotorua.

Police remain tight-lipped about the protective measures that will be in place.

Plenty of women have reportedly signed up to this dating event with a spin.

A piece of wood was found in sausages bought from Countdown Fairy Springs.

Housing First has been launched in Rotorua to 'end homelessness'.

Ngāti Rangiwewehi has been granted a consent through till September 2033.

Jesse Charters' Facebook post has received more than 200 responses in two days.

Including new security, earthquake strengthening and a redesign of airport terminals.

The woman, who had no medical help, is still suffering from PTSD six months on.

Colin Rolfe has received his 50-year service medal and retired in the same week.

'I imagine the people of Rotorua will be very, very angry and they should be.'

There have been seven truck crashes on roads around the Bay of Plenty so far this month.

A Rotorua woman is having a hard time catching the bus after the service was rerouted.

Catholic school blessed ahead of classes after woman's body found on the playing fields.

On Saturday police launched a homicide investigation after a body was found on Friday.

A geyser came out at Te Ruapeka Bay in Lake Rotorua.

Kiri Hollie Marshall, Miss October Diamond, has been selected for the top 10.

The shelter organiser says he is doing his best to keep the street happy.

Parts of Rotorua's floating wetland are yet to grow back after storm damage.

A Rotorua man found a large pile of rubbish washed up at Ohinemutu.

Former PM says heads would have rolled if youth camp scandal had occurred on her watch.

'I guess some people get their rocks off on it, but hopefully it will stop now.'

More than 50 Rotorua koeke are hitting the gym together twice a week.

Shenyce Marsden-Roberts died on Wednesday following a two-year cancer battle.

Shenyce Marsden-Stables has been zorbing, to Kendrick Lamar and had plans to travel south.

The Pukuatua St drop-in centre has the council consent to become a night shelter.

Rotorua Lakes Council is working with Visions of a Helping Hand to consent a new location.

The Rotorua mayor addressed media today to discuss the homeless shelter.

Tiny Deane has described the council as 'heartless' after choosing to close night shelter.

Over the past four weeks, on average two Rotorua children have slept in motels each night.

Rotorua police ticketed more than 50 people as part of a crackdown on distracted driving.

We caught up with Temuera Morrison ahead of his new film release.

Rotorua night shelter has been told it is not safe for overnight sleeping.

Attack on elderly woman with dementia the second incident of this type in three months.

I'm not Māori but my new tā moko tells my past, my future - my story.

How Te Puia are taking Māori culture to the world. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Facilities are being targeted by thieves and vandals for iPads, computers and electronics.

Donaldson is now 280km from Taranaki and 320km from Raglan.

Advice is to keep cars in driveways if possible or to use alarms or steering wheel locks.

The 42-year-old founder of the Smear Your Mea campaign died on Saturday.

Meetings aim to offer advice and give hope to people in face of scourge of P.

An aircraft has crashed into the Lakeland Queen while taxiing on Lake Rotorua.

An Old Taupo Rd liquor store is closed today after a large fire last night.

Up to 30 cars in Rotorua have been broken into over the past two weeks.

Gull in Atiamuri currently has what is likely to be the nation's cheapest petrol.

Prices across the country break record highs but not here.

Two cars have crashed in Tikitere.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters stopped by Rotorua for a public meeting.

A bush search for missing autistic man Nigel Peterson began in Rotorua today.

Police plead for drivers to pull over and stop.

Chiefs players cheer up children affected by floods.

But authorities believe the flood risk can be mitigated through the site design.

Rotorua came together for a meeting about proposed changes to the air ambulance service.

MP Simeon Brown is hoping to change the sentencing for manufacturing synthetic drugs.

Last year 15 households placed in Rotorua's state houses came from out of the region.

The stretch of road has claimed two lives in the past three months.

A writer has been given the chance to share Te Arawa stories as comics, but needs help.

The Lakehouse was bought by Pukeroa Oruawhata Group at mortgagee auction in 2007.

Kmart Rotorua has opened to a fanfare of cheers and waiata.

The following incidents were reported to police during the past week.

A Rotorua family are devastated after the loss of a son, brother, husband and father.

Cross Laminated Timber plant to be built at Red Stag Mill site at Waipa, Rotorua.

Rotorua police fear a week of rising domestic violence.

Rotorua-based Tabuteau says commitments to Rotorua and Te Puke a priority.

Thousands are expected to descend on the new Rotorua store on opening day, March 16.

Ripped off deaf tourist left with nothing but her bikini, towel and Go-Pro camera.

A car has rolled on to its roof on State Highway 30 in Tikitere.

A pupil at Rotorua's Westbrook School was approached by a man in a grey truck.

Rotorua's hidden homeless population is not monitored or recorded.

Results on possible algal blooms and discolouration affecting parts of Lake Tarawera.

The following incidents were reported to Rotorua police during the past few days.

Rotorua police have concerns after finding a human placenta and umbilical cord.

Rotorua Arts Village had its first theft with a taxidermy art work going missing.

Daily near-misses drive jittery truckies from their jobs.

More than half of Rotorua's schools expect to see their rolls rise this year.