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 ...

A small Bay of Plenty town has stood out in recent real estate statistics, with house prices there skyrocketing. The latest QV House Price Index said the average home in the Bay of Plenty town of ...

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 ...