Bay Of Plenty

Katikati College and Katikati Primary School say all students are safe and accounted for.

The leak at the Rotorua treatment plant is contained, but health warnings remain.

At its peak, there were more than 240 families place across 13 motels. Now there are zero.

Asphalt costs about five times more than the proposed chipseal.

Heavy rain is causing localised downpours in Bay of Plenty, west of Ōpōtiki - and other parts of the country should expect some too.

Whakatāne Airport says ash from Whakaari/White Island has severely impacted services.

Christopher Hunia was called to a woman's home to refit an electronic monitoring bracelet she tried to cut off.

Police were called to the two-vehicle crash close to the township of Te Teko, just before 5pm Saturday.

Police received multiple reports of an incident in Welcome Bay on the evening of Saturday 1 November.

However, Rotorua supermarkets have ruled out adopting Kmart's anti-theft, coin-release trolley system.

Police have also charged three men with burglary, and all six are to appear in Tauranga District Court Wednesday afternoon.

The pilot, who has military experience in the SAS, was the first civilian to land on Whakaari after the eruption.

Locals say they want their roads left as they are and say the council's plan is "bloody minded road vandalism".

Dozens of council pensioner homes lie empty as residents grow uneasy.

"The front was entirely caved in," says a driver who narrowly avoided the crash between a car and a school bus that killed a person and hurt 31. Audio

All three Eastern Bay district councils have had their plans to keep three waters services in-house for the next few years approved by the Department of Internal Affairs.

A man is in hospital with serious injuries after he was attacked by several offenders in his Ōpōtiki home on Thursday morning.

At least two newly elected councillors will be accessing newly available support after facing harassment and threats during the local government elections.