Rotorua, New Zealand News

Chinese visitors usually opted to book package deals or tours of New Zealand, with the Bay of Islands, Rotorua and Queenstown.

Products being used have warnings on them stating they can be dangerous if absorbed into the skin.

Bulla Grace had been drinking alcohol when he decided to put a pan of oil on the stove, the Rotorua Coroner has been told.

Rotorua Hospital in New Zealand has opened the redeveloped Older Persons & Rehabilitation Service rehabilitation centre, which marks end of the Lakes Health Services Improvement Programme redevelopment project on the Rotorua Hospital site.

Queen's Birthday weekend is again Blues Festival weekend in Rotorua. In keeping with the objectives of the Bay of Plenty Blues Club to "nurture and develop Blues among young and aspiring musicians", there will be two opportunities for young students to gain knowledge of the blues guitar during the festival weekend.

Generation Homes' first joint venture partner Lyndon Marshall has now taken over the company's flagship Tauranga operation.

A farm and its directors have been convicted of their third dirty-dairying offence in two years, bringing their total fine to $150,000. Bay of Plenty company Riverlock Farms and director Geoffrey Brown were fined $37,000 in the Environment Court in Rotorua recently after being convicted on charges of discharging effluent to a drain that entered ... (more)

Waikato District Health Board today joins Associate Minister of Health Jo Goodhew and each of the four DHB regions - Northern, Midlands, Central and South Island - to launch a national patient safety campaign aimed at saving lives and reducing harm.

Police Minister Anne Tolley says Labour is continuing its campaign to mislead the public and undermine confidence in the Police.

An Opotiki dairy farm company and its director have been fined $37,000 for discharging effluent from a pond where it entered a roadside drain.

Forty eight residents of China's Rotorua-Nanjing township were welcomed to Rotorua yesterday [Wednesday 15 May] with an official powhiri at the Rotorua District Council Civic Centre.

Over the last 4A1 2 years we have taken a number of steps towards those priorities, including reducing company tax, reducing tax on work and savings, increasing tax on consumption and property, cutting red tape for business, and getting the Government's own finances in shape to keep interest rates lower and take pressure off the exchange rate.

Rotorua MP Todd McClay's bill to ban gang insignia from Government premises has been amended to include every school in New Zealand.

A one-day conference in Rotorua this Thursday , supported by Federated Farmers, will take land owners through the economics of bioenergy, which could become a big part of New Zealand's energy future.

A high court judge ruled out provocation as a defence in a recent cold-case murder trial because ''no ordinary New Zealander'' would have resorted to firing a gun at another person in the same circumstances.

For the second time in three years Rotorua's Kingi Biddle has been named the best public speaker in the country.

Stories making headlines across New Zealand at noon include parents who watched their daughter start school after being told by doctors that she wouldn't survive two years with a large tumour growing down her spine.

New Zealand has been riveted lately by the tale of a drug kingpin who built a methamphetamine empire on precursor drugs smuggled from Thailand, only to be brought down by his adultery with several wrong women.

It's a city surrounded by salt water but Auckland's fanatical fishermen are being urged this week to give fresh water a go.

NEW Zealand's "accidental millionaire" Leo Gao wants his four year and seven month jail term reduced because he says he's not a fraudster and was only taking advantage of a bank error.