The body of 24-year-old William Rouppe van der Voort was recovered from Lake Rotorua by the Police National Dive Squad yesterday. Divers found his body about 500m from shore.

The driver of a grey hatchback is being sought following a collision with a motorbike in Rotorua this morning.

Come dawn on Wednesday, hundreds of trout fishermen will drop their lures into the water or cast fly lines into the current in the Ohau Channel where a shotgun blast signals the start of fishing in the new season.

The mother of Nia Glassie has been released from prison but is under strict conditions including needing official approval before entering into a relationship.

After the double blow that two of their children had been diagnosed with the same cancer, a courageous Rotorua family hopes they have now beaten the disease.

The mother of murdered toddler Nia Glassie has been granted parole, with the Parole Board today saying Lisa Kuka no longer posed a undue risk to the safety of the community.

An Auckland girls' school principal has apologised after one of her students stripped in public - and it's emerged another was involved in a similar scantily-clad dare.

Ex-pat David Dawson has become the first New Zealander to swim solo the length of Loch Lomond in Scotland, the largest inland stretch of water in Great Britain.

At least a dozen families were in a welfare centre last night after one of the longest and most damaging storms in years lashed the country.

A Bin Inn store is the latest freehold, individually titled retail outlet to be placed on the market for sale in a continuing sell-down of commercial units

Helicopter monsoon buckets were yesterday used to clear loose material from above two highways - one of which was closed by an early morning rockfall.

The NZ Transport Agency is using a helicopter carrying a monsoon bucket to wash away debris on the side of cliffs that are threatening to crumble and cause slips on State Highway 36 between Tauranga and Rotorua.

A father excluded from his son's school camp because he was an active gang member says he's overwhelmed by the nation's response to the decision.

Two Rotorua sisters have been jailed for two years for the "persistent and ugly" blackmail of a married man one of them had a sexual encounter with.

Part of a main road in Rotorua had to be closed after steam erupted from a 'rogue' geothermal bore.

The alleged owners of four dogs that savaged a 7-year-old girl in Murupara have reappeared in court.

His T-shirt is recognisable in most Rotorua schools but Warren Tumarae wants people to know that underneath there's a fierce passion to stop bullying.

For an intoxicating few seconds, the world is a weird blur, rushing by in streaks of blue and green. Past the toes of my red sneakers, I make out Mokoia Island in the centre of a sparkling Lake Rotorua.

The sale of legal highs could be effectively banned in Rotorua from June 5.

Former broadcaster Tamati Coffey says his selection as Labour's candidate in Rotorua was never a given and he wants to take the seat in this year's election.

Former television presenter Tamati Coffey has been selected as Labour's candidate for Rotorua.