Not since Whakatane`s Tony Rees in the year 2000 has a Kiwi rider won an event in the Australian Superbike Championships.
And the latest man to do it is none other than Rees` youngest son, Damon Rees. Read...
A young man who suffered serious injury after returning inside the family`s burning home remains in Waikato Hospital.Reilly Young had been cooking chicken nuggets on September 16 when the fire started.Fire Safety Investigator... Read...
Pak`nSave Whakatane staff will strike this afternoon over claims they`re being underpaid. Around 30 employees plan to picket outside the King Street store between 2.30pm and 4.30pm.Workers claim the Whakatane store pays below... Read...
A Bay of Plenty logistics firm is awaiting sentence after it admitted illegally discharging sediment contaminated water which flowed into the Whakatane and Waimana Rivers.Waiotahi Contractors Ltd, which earlier pleaded guilty to... Read...
The man behind an attempted gunpoint robbery of popular Whakatane berry farm was fuelling his anti-social ways with around half a gram of methamphetamine every day at the time of the offence. Read...
A man was high on methamphetamine when he went on a rampage with a gun in which customers at an Eastern Bay of Plenty berry farm cafe were injured.Prior to storming Julian`s Berry Farm in Whakatane in February last year, Redmond... Read...
Emergency services are attending a serious crash on SH2 near Whakatane.Police said it was unclear if anyone had been injured.The road has been closed between Taneatua and Waimana and diversions have been put in place.Police... Read...
Police investigating the shooting of much-loved grandmother Leigh Wallace on Friday night near Otorohanga are appealing for sightings of a distinctive looking black and white ute.Wallace, originally from Whakatane, and a 57-year-old... Read...