The Coromandel is promising cheap RWC accommodation rates that will undercut Auckland packages reaching into the thousands.

Grant Dyson gets to the bottom of the Waihi opencast mining operation.

Police say there may have been a sighting of Auckland woman Susan O'Brien's car in Waihi but they are no closer to locating her.

The mother of a Hamilton man who died after a paintball attack wants to know why no one was charged over his death.

Shark sightings around the country have forced beach closures more than 12 times this summer.

A 15-year-old schoolboy took his own life after being part of a late-night text conversation about suicide.

Sue Baxalle's family try out a 4-berth campervan for size.

When Omri Yahel decided to propose to his girlfriend, he knew he wanted to do something "pretty epic".

'It's a bloody terrible thing ... that was my baby girl,' said distraught dad Daniel Thompson after a driveway tragedy that killed his baby daughter.

The Western BOP District Council is trying to stop smoking outdoors with a smokefree policy targeting 30 of the district's beaches.

Wairoa College student died while trying to rescue his prized and expensive basketball from river.

Up to six people fled after the stolen SUV they were in collided with a car, leaving its driver with head injuries, police say.