Latest from Bay of Plenty

'We are going backwards': City chief issues warning as rates increased

It's "going to be a very difficult year for everyone".

Kiri Gillespie: Ram raids cowardly and lazy crimes

Opinion: Business owners targeted need our help.

Regions will be 'under-resourced': Staff 'blindsided' by proposed job cuts

'The impact on students could be quite severe' - employee.

Bayfair jewellery store burgled

Tools were used to enter the store.

Kai Co-op plan to address poverty and 'cut out the middle man'

'It is about addressing the duopoly that the supermarkets have.'

Flooding and slips throughout Bay of Plenty, 'more rain on the way'

Flooding was reported in Maketu, Paengaroa and Pikowai.

Revealed: The suburbs where everyone selling their home made a profit

First-quarter data also shows some sellers made hundreds of thousands.

NZ's biggest builders: The contenders with $100m-plus workloads

They're nipping at the heels of the biggest operators.

Western Bay ratepayers face 7.04 per cent average rates increase

It comes as the council plans to upgrade "key community facilities".

Convicted architectural designer gets building licence back - and faces fresh complaint

His history of fines, suspensions and cancellations is not listed on the public register.

'Home will be so empty': Partner's tribute to league player who died after on-field injury

Officials are investigating the 'tragic incident'.

Opinion: Quiet quitters should just quit

Opinion: You are more likely to be promoted if you have a can-do, will-do attitude.

Tauranga Police appeal for help to find man who fled crash and may have jumped into estuary

The man has not been found and police are appealing for help.

Mark Lister: House prices have bottomed, but where might they go from here?

OPINION: Where the new 'normal' for mortgage rates might settle.

Lonely? How to make a new best friend in adulthood

While you can ask someone, “Are you single?”, there's no question, “Are you friended?”

'The lost, the lonely, the battered, and the bruised': The man fixing broken people

Poverty in Paradise: The team that takes on 'those who are in the too-hard basket'.

'He was ... going berserk': Families of teen vaping addicts speak out

Others say vaping 'ripped' a family apart and left a teen looking 'like death'.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Only luck has prevented more tragedies like Loafers Lodge

OPINION: Boarding houses were common in many New Zealand towns and cities after the war.