Three companies have been fined a total of almost $120,000 dollars and ordered to pay combined reparation of $20,000 after a woman was struck by a reversing forklift at a kiwifruit pack house at Mount Maunganui.
Labour leader David Cunliffe says Housing Accords will not solve the problem of Tauranga being the second most unaffordable place to live in New Zealand.
David Griffin has been through more challenges than most. He was 38 when he was first diagnosed with cancer and 12 years later he is continuing his fight with the disease.
"I want to get these two out of my life, totally gone." These were the recorded words of a man accused of attempting to procure an undercover cop to murder his parents.
