Is this how you would chose to have your funeral?

The band's final stop will be in Mount Maunganui, and they're holding out for a big one.

Needles, faeces and violence related to alcohol have prompted an urgent council meeting.

"We desperately need new stock."

He performed in front of a crowd of 20,000 people, and is still pinching himself.

"It's like they didn't want it ... like they'd rather stay in emergency housing."

The median rent in Rotorua was $460 a week in December.

The festival has evolved significantly in a short seven years.

Police are appealing for any information about the attack in Papamoa on Sunday.

Thousands are on the Job Seeker benefit, and jobs are increasingly difficult to fill.

Those who work in health and death are seeing the obesity epidemic first hand.