8:21am Tuesday 12 Nov, 2019
The Bay of Plenty Regional Council is taking the least line of resistance in penalising people using wood burners illegally. While fines of up to $750... Read More
9:45am Thursday 07 Nov, 2019
Rotorua residents living in what is term the ‘airshed’ have been issued with what seem to be a final fuel burner warning. Dated... Read More
10:30am Saturday 02 Nov, 2019
The first cadet employed under Industrial Symbiosis Kawerau or ISK’s Kawerau Pathways to Work Cadetship programme has been announced.... Read More
1:36pm Wednesday 30 Oct, 2019
The continued retention of its Fitch AA-credit rating has buoyed the Rotorua Lakes Council. At its first full meeting today since October 12’s... Read More
10:13am Sunday 27 Oct, 2019
In a first for Rotorua, and possibly New Zealand for a council of this size, women have been appointed to all posts at council sub-committee... Read More
10:05am Tuesday 22 Oct, 2019
Rotorua Lakes Council Arts & Culture Manager, Stewart Brown, give his monthly update on the Rotorua Museum strengthening and redevelopment project.... Read More
7:39am Tuesday 22 Oct, 2019
Doug Leeder has been elected unopposed to a further term as Chairperson of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council Toi Moana. Councillor Jane Nees has also... Read More
9:16am Friday 18 Oct, 2019
Fisher Wang had just finished his shift at McDonald's when the phone call that changed the 19-year-old's life came. It was 2pm on Saturday... Read More
1:50pm Thursday 17 Oct, 2019
Former Rotorua councillor Mark Gould is leaving with the usual magnanimity of one who has served the community for more than 15 years,... Read More
9:02am Tuesday 15 Oct, 2019
Dennis Curtis, the last of four mayoral candidates to furnish his nomination, added to an animated campaign in Rotorua. Though he polled... Read More
10:00am Sunday 13 Oct, 2019
The progress results are in for the election of seven members to the Lakes District Health Board. Johan Morreau, Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, Christine Rankin,... Read More
8:00am Sunday 13 Oct, 2019
Last year Fisher Wang, aged 19, was a student at John Paul College; on Saturday he mastered in politics, winning a seat on Rotorua Lakes Council. Rotorua... Read More
3:30pm Saturday 12 Oct, 2019
Rotorua’s incumbent mayor, Steve Chadwick, has been successful re-elected for a third term as mayor of Rotorua district, following the preliminary... Read More
2:55pm Friday 11 Oct, 2019
Voters from affluent areas were more likely to vote in local body elections than those at the other end of the scale according to data from the 2016... Read More
10:22am Wednesday 09 Oct, 2019
Charles Sturt is in the final week of his 33 years as a Rotorua Lakes councillor. Ill health has forced him to retire. He is succumbing... Read More