Top 10 stories of the week - October 2

A truck crashed into a Tauranga family's home last Saturday. Photo/John Borren

Here are the top 10 stories that went big over the past seven days.

Tauranga police are appealing for help to find a missing woman last seen three days ago.

Cheryl Friedland after she was sucked into quicksand-like mud. PHOTO/SUPPLIED

A Tauranga mother of two is thankful her family was not injured after a truck crashed into her home.

A couple have told how they nearly died after being trapped by a quicksand-like substance while walking their dog at a Bay of Plenty beach.

A doctor who wrote herself prescriptions for controlled drugs and who was also convicted of drink-driving has been censured, suspended from practising for three months and banned from prescribing controlled drugs for two years.

An ambitious project to revamp the central city has been unveiled, with plans for a new civic centre, museum and more green space.

An Affco cleaner impaled through the head with a mutton-spreader hook says he still has nightmares about the workplace accident which left him with life-changing injuries

A Tauranga doctor has been awarded $150,000 from the Heart Foundation for a revolutionary research programme aimed at preventing heart disease in Maori.

A solo mother who scrimped and saved to buy her family a home is devastated after a fire nearly destroyed the property.

MISSION: Karla (back left), Grahame, Jendah, Katy Dyer and Sam. PHOTO/RUTH KEBER

Grahame and Katy Dyer have arrived home in New Zealand after living in Cambodia for 12 years where they adopted a baby while working and raising their young family.

A Mount Maunganui man is dead after he was struck by a truck while crossing a dangerous intersection in Hawke's Bay.