12:26pm Tue 08 Jul, 2025
Police are looking for a man they describe as a 'risk to the public”. Redmond Huirua, 34, has a warrant for his arrest for wounding with intent... Read More
01:06pm Sun 06 Jul, 2025
Within hours of Trevor and Rosemary Newbrook's home being broken into, burgled and burnt down, William Tidd was at Rotorua pawn shops trying to hock off... Read More
01:00pm Sat 05 Jul, 2025
Warning: Distressing content Two people involved in a Rotorua teen prostitution ring that has been described as 'social dysfunction at its worst” have... Read More
12:00pm Sat 05 Jul, 2025
Police have launched Rotorua's first beat team to patrol the city centre on foot as a way to crack down on retail crime. The team is made up of five constables... Read More
01:00pm Fri 04 Jul, 2025
The president of the Tribesmen Aotearoa gang says he didn't want a fellow member to be killed, and didn't order a 'hotbox” attack to take place. Mark... Read More
10:49am Fri 04 Jul, 2025
UPDATE: Police have recovered a stolen vehicle from a Tauranga waterway. A police spokesperson said they initially recieved reports of a vehicle in a body... Read More
06:53am Fri 04 Jul, 2025
When a Tribesmen gang leader found out one of his members had been stealing money from the gang's bank account, he allegedly said the thief 'needed to be... Read More
07:00pm Thu 03 Jul, 2025
The maximum length of time someone can be trespassed from a business, as well as the maximum fines, are set to increase, under proposed changes announced by... Read More
10:00am Wed 02 Jul, 2025
When Kale Wright approached an inner-city police checkpoint in a stolen car he drove straight through it before speeding off on the wrong side of the road. Wright,... Read More
06:37am Wed 02 Jul, 2025
As truck driver Kelly Shearer turned the corner from Mount Maunganui's Hewletts Rd on to Tasman Quay, he felt a bump, which he thought was a pothole. As... Read More
08:00pm Tue 01 Jul, 2025
A police officer made around 1700 checks of a person on the police database while off-duty for non-work-related reasons, claiming they believed doing... Read More
06:00pm Tue 01 Jul, 2025
Cocaine worth an estimated $58.2 million has been found at the Port of Tauranga in a shipping container from Jamaica. Customs officers based at the port seized... Read More