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New Zealand Herald - Rotorua
| Findings reserved in deaths linked by hot pool visits |
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A coroner has reserved his findings in an inquest into the deaths of two elderly men who visited hot pools in Rotorua.
Phillip Stanley Binns, a 77-year-old from Nelson, died after bathing in a hot pool at Pineland Motor Lodge on...
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| Fears over future access to forests |
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Users of Rotorua's Whakarewarewa and Kaingaroa forests fear their access could be in jeopardy when the assets are handed over to Maori ownership.
Hunters and fishermen won't get permits for Kaingaroa after September so access issues...
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| Teen dies on way to collect mother's headstone |
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A Rotorua teenager who was killed when the van he was travelling in collided with a truck on Thursday was on his way to collect a headstone for his mother's grave.
Timoti Anderson-Brown, 16, was killed and his older sister and...
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| Police: Jail terms will warn foreign fraudsters |
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Prison sentences for two Romanian men convicted of fraud involving automatic teller machines send a clear message to overseas crime groups, police say.
Marcel Cismas, 35, and Alexandru Tudor, 24, were each jailed for two years...
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| One dead, two infants injured after van, truck collide |
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One person was killed and two infants hospitalised after a van and truck collided head on in icy conditions on State Highway 5 in the Mamaku Ranges, 20km northwest of Rotorua today.
A passenger in the van died at the scene and...
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| Tauranga police warn motorists over ice |
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Tauranga police are urging drivers to be careful because of icy conditions.
Police had received a number of reports of icy conditions in the upper Kaimai Ranges, on the Tauranga Direct Road through to Rotorua, and on Te Matai Road...
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| One dead after van and truck collide |
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One person is dead after a van and truck collided on State Highway 5 in the Mamaku Ranges 20km north west of Rotorua today.
The 6am crash happened near Fitzgerald Glade, police northern communications Inspector William Taylor said.
SH5...
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| Slow progress in hunt for 'Runaway Millionaires' |
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New Zealand police are still to seek help from Chinese authorities to catch the Rotorua couple who fled the country with millions of dollars Westpac Bank had accidentally deposited into their account.
Leo Gao and his partner Kara...
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| Man held after alleged gun threat in Rotorua |
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A man is alleged to have walked into the probation service offices in Rotorua and told reception he had a gun.
Inspector Cornelius Kluessien said armed police went to the offices at about 11.10am
He said less than an hour later...
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| Man admits biting officer's thumb to avoid arrest |
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A Murupara man has admitted biting the thumb of a police officer in an attempt to avoid being arrested.
Lionel Wayne Taputu, 40, pleaded guilty yesterday in the Rotorua District Court to a charge of wounding Constable Gared McLaughlin...
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| Thirst saves five from fire |
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A man's thirst in the middle of the night may have saved five lives near Rotorua yesterday.
Firefighters were called to a fire at a farmhand's house at Mamaku, 20km northwest of Rotorua, about 2.30am, to find the house well alight...
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