Gift bags and free cupcakes on offer for first customers when store officially opens.

Shane Jones officially launched the Provincial Growth Fund in Gisborne today.

First areas of land committed for winter planting.

Rotorua dairy farming operation finalist in Maori Excellence in Farming Award for dairy.

Close to 5000 sheep are now being milked twice daily by Maui Milk at Waikino.

Rotorua is hosting MobileTECH 2018.

Tourists spent an estimated $1.8 billion in the region over the last year.

National symposium expected to attract more than 600 delegates and $900k of spending.

The company plans to focus on its digital properties.

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese visitors expected as Chinese New Year kicks off.

What if you could get a tax refund each time you got paid your wages/salary or super?

A 14-night cruise on luxury liner Wind Surf will be the big auction item.

The contrasting attractions of the central North Island is being promoted to Australians.

Rotorua's landmark Holiday Inn hotel is for sale for the first time in two decades.

The CTU has come to the aid of a mother who couldn't afford a headstone for her son.

If you own a business with a presence on Facebook you're getting a lot less attention.

The number of empty shops has hit an eight-year low in Rotorua's CBD.

A local business has been ordered to pay one of its former employees more than $25,000.

Spending in the region is up 5.6 per cent for January, according to new Paymark figures.

Visitors to the Bay of Plenty are believed to have spent $1.8 billion in 2017.

Kawerau Dairy a collaboration between 11 Maori entities and Imanaka's Cedenco Dairy unit

More than 50 jobs at the Rotorua Foodstuffs distribution centre are in limbo.

New Geothermal Business Development lead is hitting the ground running.

The unemployment rate dropped to 4.5 per cent in the three months ended December 31.

Foodstuffs' new HQ comes at cost of Rotorua centre.

Govt advice on employment law changes warns of higher costs to businesses.

Ministry to keep centralised records of workplace sexual harassment.

A Bay of Plenty iwi has enlisted Contact Energy's support to help Kenya's Maasai people.

At this time of year, it seems that everyone is thinking about debt.

More than 80 per cent of new nurses have found employment, six weeks after graduating.