Tauranga-based electric motorcycle company Ubco has gone into receivership, halting operations and terminating all 82 employees just months after securing a deal with Australia...
Police and local councils collaborate to nab offenders in coordinated operations.
Police have praised the efforts of local council CCTV operators in Rotorua and Tauranga...
One person has died following a rescue from a cliff at Hahei Beach, Thames-Coromandel.
Emergency services responded around 8:15pm last night.
One person was located at...
Police can confirm one person has died following a water incident at Pilot Bay Beach, Mt. Maunganui yesterday morning.
Emergency services were notified just before...
A body has been discovered overnight near the mouth of the harbour east of Ōhope Beach.
Formal identification procedures are ongoing, however it is thought...
Fatal crash, Parkvale, Tauranga
Police can confirm one person has died following a crash in Parkvale, Tauranga last night.
Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle...
Police are continuing to disrupt the supply of methamphetamine into Rotorua’s communities.
Late last week, a four-month operation culminated in the arrest of two Black...
Four people have been arrested and approximately 200kg of methamphetamine has been seized following a joint investigation between New Zealand Police and the New...
The two women charged in connection with the death of 8-year-old Rickah’Shae Keefe-Haerewa have been named as 25-year-old Maya Hati and 61-year-old Pauline Timu.
Hati...
Stuart Campbell Edmondson has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder following a fatal shooting on the Coromandel Peninsula’s 309 Road...
Police updates on crimes and investigations for 15 December 2024.
Fatality following water-related incident, Avalon, Lower Hutt
Police can confirm that a child has died in...
Police have filed a murder charge following a search warrant in Whakatane this morning, relating to the death of 8-year-old boy Rickah'Shae Keefe-Haerewa, 8...
In a disturbing case involving an illegal prostitution ring in Rotorua, five men have admitted to engaging commercial sexual services from a 13-year-old girl.
The...
At 5.30pm yesterday, Friday 15 November, Police were called to Whakatane Hospital, after an 8-year-old boy died following an assault.
A 25-year-old woman has been...
Thousands are expected to honour Sir Robert Gillies, affectionately known as Bom, at his funeral today at Te Papaiouru marae in Rotorua.
As the last...
At least 12 people have been injured after a bus rolled over in Broadlands near Rotorua early this morning.
Emergency services, including multiple ambulances and...
Former rugby star Matua Parkinson was sentenced today for firearms offences.
Police responded to the sentencing by issuing the following press release, which is published...
The Wellington Lions clinched the NPC 2024 title in an intense, nail-biting final that stretched into extra time, with Callum Harkin’s decisive penalty sealing...
Today Police executed over 30 search warrants across the North Island as part of Operation Highwater, a concentrated operation targeting members and associates of...
A 52-year-old man has appeared in court today, in relation to the murder of three people in Rotorua in September.
Justin Matthew Jeffries appeared in...
In a contentious decision on October 14, the Tauranga City Council voted to comply with a directive from the Director-General of Health, Diana Sarfati,...
Bay of Plenty have beaten Hawke's Bay in Quarterfinal 2 of the Bunnings NPC 2024 at Tauranga Domain today.
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A body has been recovered following a single-vehicle crash into the Waioeka River near Ōpōtiki, police confirmed today.
The incident occurred on Friday, October 4,...
A 50-year-old woman has been charged with murder following the discovery of a deceased man in Gate Pa, Tauranga, on Sunday morning.
Police were called...
A woman who was critically injured during an assault at her home in Western Heights, Rotorua, has died from her injuries, police confirmed.
The assault,...
A homicide investigation is underway following the discovery of a man’s body in Tauranga this morning.
Police were alerted to the scene around 8:45 a.m....