Latest from Thames-Coromandel District

Trio hooked on slivered kahawai

Alarm over harbour gold hunt

Coromandel to join Auckland?

Fifty years ago, a teacher in Coromandel town predicted to her student that their charming settlement would one day be a suburb of Auckland.

Prepping for a Coromandel hen's party

So you've been tasked with organising a hen's party ... one option is fleeing the city and swapping novelty cakes and forced craziness for a weekend of fun and pampering.

Million-dollar school workshop goes up in smoke

Lucky escape after collision sinks car

A soaked young driver swam away from his sinking car and managed to crawl up the bank of the Ohinemuri River in the Karangahake Gorge with little more than a few scratches yesterday.

Coromandel: Great Kiwi road trip

Classic NZ coastline, lush bush and old-fashioned holiday camp fun - Danielle Wright takes a campervan tour around the Coromandel.

Saving lives and building bonds in the Bay

Mystery surrounds missing eggs

Psa spreads to Coromandel kiwifruit

Whitianga: Built for the boys

A trip to Whitianga is an adventure with wheels like these, writes Estelle Sarney.

Hauraki Gulf: Planning for the future

As valuable to marine life as it is prized by humans, the Hauraki Gulf is in decline. Though solutions seem as elusive as the gulf's fish stocks, a groundswell is building for collaboration.

Two men charged with poaching paua

Shellfish warning returns to Bay of Plenty

Man named in fatal quad bike accident

Gold fever returns to Northland

As mining makes a political comeback Catherine Masters finds strong local opposition to the prospect of a Northland gold rush

Elderly Coromandel man's body found

Flooded farmer saved in rescue