Bay of Plenty Police believes a focus on victims and prevention is having an impact on the level of record crime, with another significant reduction recorded in 2013.
Official crime ... More
A police investigation is continuing today into a hunting incident south east of Opotiki yesterday.
Police have established that a father and two adult sons from Hamilton went out deer ... More
A man injured in a hunting accident south east of Opotiki today was one of a party of three adult men from the Hamilton area. The injured man is in his 20s and is currently in a critical condition ... More
At approximately 1.30pm (Monday, 31 March) a Personal Locator Beacon signal was picked up by the Rescue Coordination Centre NZ.
The Greenlea Rescue helicopter from Taupo was ... More
The investigation into a dog attack in Murupara on Monday, 3 March is now complete and the two owners of the four dogs involved in this attack have been summonsed to appear in court jointly ... More
A truck driver who died in a crash on SH2 in the Waioeka Gorge between Opotiki and Gisborne yesterday morning can now be named as 52-year-old Shane Ihaka from Mangere, Auckland.
The cause ... More