East Coast

Commercial forestry changes under proposed Resource Management Act reforms seen as a return to weaker forestry regulations.

The assaults happened around Gladstone Road and Lowe Street.

Police have arrested four males following gunfire in Gisborne that left two people injured.

Wellington braces for strongest southerlies in more than a decade.

Only 41 percent of 864 respondents supported keeping the speed limit at 80km/h.

Four people involved in an illegal tobacco importing operation, and who were on-selling cigarettes from a Gisborne restaurant, were sentenced last week at the Gisborne District Court.

With 30-40 percent of senior doctor positions unfilled, the hospital is facing critical staff shortages.

Officers were called to Ranfurly Street at around 6.30am after reports of a gunshot.

The council's bylaw process complicates implementing the new speed limits.

Police say the death has been referred to the Coroner.

Firefighters are focusing on dampening hot spots at a fire on the Māhia Peninsula that came dangerously close to houses.

Gisborne District Council will be short of a councillor for the remaining seven months of the term.

Cobham School students will have their last day on 27 June 2025.

Conservationists are at odds with Fisheries New Zealand over a proposal to increase the commercial crayfish catch limit in the Eastern North Island. Audio

Dame Iritana Tāwhiwhirangi, a founder and champion of the kōhanga reo movement, is to be laid to rest this morning at Rāhui marae in Tikitiki near East Cape.

Police were called to an address on Te Araroa Road in Hicks Bay shortly before 4pm.

Residents reportedly heard a loud bang before the electricity went off.

The hearings will take place over a six-week period in Auckland and Hastings.