Michelle Hoffman-Tamm's tragic death after going missing on a bike ride will touch people from many walks of life, says her sister Jan Donlan.

Efforts by Rotorua Montessori students and their parents to raise funds for the school have been ruined by thieves.

A tip-off by a suspicious Bunnings employee led to the discovery of a Rotorua drug manufacturing operation, a court has heard.

One of the two Tauranga men on trial accused of manufacturing $2.3 million of P claims it would have been impossible to do so.

Rotorua mayor Kevin Winters doesn't know how Nia Glassie's mother can live with herself knowing her baby was so badly mistreated and killed.

Police are seeking public help to find a 51-year-old Rotorua woman who has been missing since last November 7.

Two people are in hospital with fractured skulls after large scale disorder erupted at a series of parties in Rotorua over the weekend.

A three-year-old boy who was diagnosed with meningococcal C has been transferred from Starship Children's Hospital to Middlemore for plastic surgery.

A Rotorua man has admitted benefit fraud which lasted more than 15 years.

A hitchhiker murdered a motorist who picked him up and offered him a bed for the night after he made an unwelcome sexual advance, a court has heard.

A 15-year-old Rotorua girl who took Gavin Hayes' car for a joy ride has apologised to the 82-year-old, the Rotorua Youth Court has heard.