Traffic delays likely after crash.

Brazen thieves have been targeting avocado growers in the district, with up to a dozen theft complaints to Western Bay police in the past six weeks.

The Bay of Plenty parents accused of causing the death of their 8-month-old baby boy will defend the allegation at a jury trial.

Emergency services are responding to a gas leak in central Tauranga.

Kiwi lifesaving champ branded gutless by father of little girl hit by flying tub of KFC coleslaw.

A dispute between a Tauranga builder and the Ministry of Education over school weathertightness issues tipped the builder into liquidation, an official report says.

Charity officials have been left stunned by the efforts of this Tauranga beauty queen.

Three fire trucks and ambulance staff are at the scene, on Cumberland Crescent in Welcome Bay.

The investment of $53.5m in schools in Tauranga, Hamilton and Hawkes Bay is part of the Budget 2016.

Irene More was born on the fifth day of June, 1916.

A recent survey of Bay of Plenty residents carried out by Bay of Plenty MP Todd Muller found a majority were in favour of a law change.

Auckland's effect on the property market is pushing first home buyers in the regions to the limit as they buy homes without first setting foot inside.

Five councils - Auckland, Tauranga, Hamilton, Queenstown and Christchurch - will be affected by new policy released by the Government this afternoon.

A Tauranga father is vowing to fight on after his son's heart was taken without his consent.

Twelve families who had been struggling to find a healthy home were at the centre of celebrations in a Tauranga housing project at the weekend.

The distracted driver is one of more than 20 people fined on one of the Western Bay of Plenty's worst blackspots.

Yoda's legacy shows dogged determination.

About 140 people are currently living without basic shelter within walking distances of one of the region's most vulnerable schools, it was revealed at a community meeting last night.

Austin Manning has received life-changing surgery in America at St Louis Children Hospital.

An airbrushed tattoo on a 5-year-old has become an internet phenomenon that could bring smiles to the faces of children at Starship Children's Health.

A school's right to get tough on pot puffing international pupils is under examination today.

Tauranga means "continuous settlement". It is a place my whanau has stayed, long before the arrival of settlers to the area.

Pipeline was to carry human and industrial waste from Tauranga through the middle of mostly Maori-owned peninsula.