3:06pm Tuesday 21 Jan, 2020
People are being encouraged to bring along a picnic and a rug and settle in to enjoy free local entertainment as Music at the Band Rotunda returns to... Read More
10:29am Thursday 16 Jan, 2020
Two Rotorua candidates have failed to file expenses returns for the 2019 local body elections. While several candidates filed their... Read More
10:00am Monday 13 Jan, 2020
An outspoken Rotorua Lakes councillor has labelled the mayor's leadership as "authoritarian". Reynold Macpherson says he believes the... Read More
7:13am Wednesday 08 Jan, 2020
A new councillor is the subject of a formal complaint of a possible breach of the Rotorua Lakes Council’s code of conduct. But... Read More
1:46pm Sunday 29 Dec, 2019
Security for the annual Rotorua New Year festival on Tuesday, December 31, has been tightened. The Rotorua GLO Festival 2019 entertainment event will... Read More
11:30am Sunday 29 Dec, 2019
With alterations well underway in the Sir Howard Morrison Performing Arts Centre - SHMPAC, the destiny of four grand pianos has been decided. One, a... Read More
12:02pm Wednesday 18 Dec, 2019
With construction beginning next year on Rotorua Museum and the Sir Howard Morrison Performing Arts Centre, leading New Zealand firm, Hawkins, has been... Read More
7:09am Wednesday 18 Dec, 2019
The first contract for Stage 2 of the lakefront development has been awarded to Waiotahi Contractors. This contract is to complete the enabling works... Read More
8:25am Tuesday 17 Dec, 2019
A confrontation with “feral youths” in which knives were brandished in the Rotorua CBD had its sequel at a local council meeting yesterday. Hotelier... Read More
2:52pm Thursday 12 Dec, 2019
People and wellbeing will be at the heart of a range of work for the Rotorua Lakes Council in the new term. And the creation of “liveable communities”... Read More
10:03am Thursday 12 Dec, 2019
At first glance, it looks a case of the last shall be first and the first shall be last as councillor salary scales appear to be set in Rotorua. For... Read More
4:00pm Sunday 08 Dec, 2019
Jim Mather, who has served as chief executive officer of three organisations over the last 16 years, has been appointed the new chairman of the Lakes... Read More
3:30pm Sunday 08 Dec, 2019
Rotorua i-Site staff members have been assigned as camping ambassadors at free camping sites around the district. But it seems the ambassadors will... Read More
3:20pm Friday 06 Dec, 2019
Rotorua Lakes Council meetings could be much shorter if councillors cut the chat. But will democracy will be best served? That was... Read More
3:17pm Friday 06 Dec, 2019
Lateness prevented new councillor Reynold Macpherson from tabling “seven concerns” yesterday over an Audit signing off of council... Read More