'There was no sign of the newly hatched chick ‘George’ ...some of the birds were missing'.

There are health warnings in place for Lake Ōkaro, Lake Maraetai and Lake Ohakuri.

Rotorua Daily Post is looking back at some of the top stories of 2023.

“When the purse strings are so tight you are having to cut back on food..."

More people getting out fishing in the South Island compared with the North Island.

The fire began on Saturday night and burned through about 37ha of scrub and pine slash.

A dry summer with “plenty of clear skies”.

Rotorua Daily Post is looking back at the stories of 2023.

'There is a lot of unknown in the ocean,' shark expert Dr Riley Elliott says.

Some opted for a Kiwi classic.

There have been two crashes in the North Island and one in the South.

And that is just the provisional tally with donations continuing to pour in.

'Now I live a life that I thought only existed in movies or books.'

"Many tears of relief and gratitude, and plenty of wide smiles."

For some people Christmas Day is still a working day, but one with a difference.

North Island will be under a moist and humid northerly air flow.

The band is set to part ways next year.

Ten months on from the cyclone, Wairakei Golf and Sanctuary is back to full strength.

Police were called around 11.50am.

OPINION: have never been so happy to be proven wrong.

Men are due in Rotorua District Court this week.

Contractors will pause work from midday tomorrow through to 8am on January 8.

Ten people have drowned in the Waikato River between Lake Taupō and Huka Falls since 2008.

'It is a time of giving, you don’t want to give yourself a headache in the new year.'

The Rotorua-based stayer has spent the past year recovering from tendon damage.

While one group petitioned against it, another says it must go ahead ASAP.

Two people have been injured.

Hundreds of homes across the country are affected by the engineering forgeries.