Next time you pass through Karangahake, trek the Hauraki Rail Trail or visit a farm.

Wooden digging implements found in the Coromandel and a piece of waka from an Auckland estuary are among items officials want help with in determining ownership.

Elisabeth Easther finds this town has much to boast besides its famed giant L&P bottle.

They were a few kilometres off the coast of Coromandel trying to catch some snapper - they then hit a 63kg pig.

A missing Coromandel man who failed to return from an overnight hunting trip was located on Thursday evening down the bottom of a bluff near his home.

District Search and Rescue said it was out of character for 50-year-old Scott Grant Driver not to return home as he usually only went out for a few hours.

A toddler who survived a fall from a moving train carriage on a popular tourist railway line on the Coromandel Peninsula is recovering well.

Government scientists promise to keep a close eye on three scallop fisheries from where they have received reports of deformed, watery and stunted specimens.

Concern is stirring over the health of several scallop fisheries after an investigation has detected the spread of a new parasite to North Island waters.

A Whangamata man was 'pottering around in the shed' when a family member discovered that he had won $4 million.

A hunter who was reported missing in the Coromandel State Forest Park, near Hikutaia, has been found.

A female in her late teens was the sole occupant of a car which left the road and crashed down a bank in the Coromandel this morning.

The woman is understood to have been travelling with her daughter into Hahei township, while the second vehicle - carrying two foreign tourists - was leaving.

Squabbling developers are asking for public hearings on the New Chums beach development in the Coromandel to be postponed until they can sort out their differences.

A Thames man shot by police after an armed stand-off in the town has been named. Police confirmed he was Vaughan William John Te Moananui, 33, of Thames.

Police shot dead a man who confronted them with a gun during an incident on the Coromandel yesterday. The Armed Offenders Squad and the Police Negotiation Team were called after police were alerted to a "significant threat of violence" about midday in Thames.

Police shot dead a man who confronted them with a gun during an incident on the Coromandel yesterday.

One of the oldest human artefacts found in NZ discovered off Coromandel.

A man jailed today for a violent kidnapping will be immediately eligible for parole having spent a year in custody.

One of New Zealand's few privately owned islands is in the process of being sold for more than $7 million.

A woman who watched in horror as a car careered over a cliff, just missing her two grandchildren below, says she would like to visit the crash victim in hospital.

A teenager was airlifted to hospital after his car plunged 15m down a bank in the Coromandel this morning.

Two men critically injured in a forestry accident had been hauling a big log up a deep gully before it suddenly turned on them, striking one man in the head.

Two men were seriously injured in a logging accident in a forest in the Coromandel this afternoon.

Campers could be forced to make way for million-dollar beachfront mansions as a popular Coromandel campground is placed on the market.

An island about 4km off the Coromandel coast is being marketed as a boutique tourism venture or the ultimate private hideaway.

About 1400 private bach owners on the Coromandel face being stung with a new council charge if their properties are rented out as short-term holiday accommodation.

Two women who died in a head-on collision in Waikato this morning were a New Zealander and an Australian, police have confirmed.

A beachfront holiday home has had a record-breaking 1,800 people through during a series of open homes as Kiwis rekindle their love affair with coastal property.