Photo / Andrew Warner A health warning has been issued for Okawa Bay at Lake Rotoiti, in Rotorua, due to a bloom of “potentially toxic” blue-green algae, Toi Te Ora Public Health says.

It will start below the Ohau Channel outlet, which links Lake Rotorua and Lake Rotoiti, and extend for about a kilometre to Te Akau Point. It will be about 75m offshore, running paralell to State ...

Lake Rotoiti has emerged as the “most improved” of Rotorua’s three popular trout fishing lakes - where the start of the new season is celebrated – as anglers fished the first day of the ...