In her first year as an elite, Kiwi mountain biker Samara Maxwell produced a performance of extraordinary proportions to grab ...

Two spacecraft are currently directly observing the Sun: NASA's Parker Solar Probe (which will eventually approach to just 5% of the Earth-Sun distance), and ESA's Solar Orbiter, which is en route to ...

More than 30 groups of Year 12-13 Mount Maunganui College students will launch their businesses at the market, in conjunction ...

Kimber is an “honorary and life-time member” of the Filthy Few motorcycle gang, although material provided to the court said he has “largely stopped” his involvement since his 21-year-old daughter’s ...

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A “plague of hoons” on motorbikes riding illegally in Tauranga parks has neighbours fed up and worried about people’s safety ...

Ruthe finished second at the 2025 New Zealand Secondary Schools Cross Country Championships at Barge, Park in Whanganui to setting national records over the 1500m in Los Angeles. Ruthe finished behind ...

New Zealand Youth Choir has won the top award at an international competition in Wales. The singers, aged between 18 and 25, have been awarded Choir of the World at the Llangollen International ...

MetService has issued a heavy rain watch for Bay of Plenty and the west of the South Island. "Unsettled conditions continue to affect parts of the country, with periods of heavy rain for Bay of Plenty ...

The heavy rain watch for the Bay of Plenty and east of Rotorua is expected to last 16 hours from 5pm today until 9am tomorrow, Monday, July 14. The periods of heavy rain may have thunderstorms, and ...

Tauranga-born professional boxer Cherneka Johnson has made history at New York’s Madison Square Garden, becoming the first Māori to be crowned an undisputed boxing world champion.

Lum, 31, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter. It is alleged he was the motorcyclist who drove dangerously and hit and killed Johnson on Edmund Rd in Rotorua on June 15. Riki Ronald Edward Lum, 31, ...