A drone team of three from Fire and Emergency New Zealand is currently carrying out a Rapid Assessment of the impact heavy rain is having on the West Coast.

New Zealand will sign up to new international maritime regulations to reduce ship emissions and lift air quality around ports and harbours, Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter announced today.

Police are investigating following an assault in Mairehau yesterday, 3 December.

Around 5:20pm Police received a report that a woman had been struck in the head by a bottle during an altercation on the corner of Ailsa Street and Riselaw Street.

A free regional bus service for tertiary students will be launched in 2020 across the Bay of Plenty Region.

As we prepare to host more visitors for the holidays, we're making some final touches to improve a number of our public conveniences at parks and beach reserves around the district.

Police can now release the name of the man who died following a crash on Apata Station Road near State Highway Two, Whakamarama, on Monday 2 December.

He was Duran Hohaia Kelly, 35, of Somerville, Auckland.

New Zealand has just experienced its hottest November on record, according to NIWA climate scientists.

Wairau Valley bridge, SH63, remaining closed due to slow floodwater subsidence and highway damage

Palmerston North Police have today arrested a man in relation to a serious assault last week on the Mangaone Stream Walkway.

About 6pm on Tuesday 26 November, a woman walking along the walkway near Amberley Avenue was assaulted by a man who had followed her on a bicycle.

Police can confirm that a cyclist who was seriously injured after being hit by a vehicle during a fleeing driver incident in Massey last week, has sadly died in hospital last night.

He was a 39-year-old male from Auckland.