Curved like a smile across the North Island’s east coast, the Bay of Plenty and the string of towns threading its white-sand shorelines is a popular destination for New Zealanders, especially in ...

Emergency services were told a group of around six people were fighting on Church St in the eastern Bay of Plenty town at about 12.20am, Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Varnam said. “One of those ...

But the Bay of Plenty, and everywhere north of Hawke’s Bay, gets lumped in with Auckland. Is it time we carved out a long weekend with our own Bay flavour? Kelly Makiha asks locals and leaders ...