Some may call me a special little snowflake, an echo boomer or even just a member of the generation that cares. But there’s no denying millennials aren’t just a generation - they’re a mass movement determined to create change on...... Read More

The world’s biggest literary event for children is coming to the Bay of Plenty, as local super-readers join more than 8000 children worldwide to compete for the title of Kids’ Lit Quiz champion 2018. The Kids’ Lit Quiz is an annual...... Read More

Heads are down, fingers are tapping on the keyboard, small groups are conversing and the invigorating aroma of coffee wafts in from the front door. Welcome to Tauranga’s co-working space, Basestation. Established in November 2014 by Venture...... Read More

Welcome Bay’s Bex Tereu is a woman constantly on the go, working at the Parenting Place, writing a blog and business column, and being mum to two children. When she developed breast cancer in 2015, she was forced to slow down and it didn’t...... Read More

With Matariki approaching, the gap in the line-up of the Matariki carvings on The Strand is being noticed. The carvings represent a Maori interpretation of the star cluster also known as the Pleiades or the seven sisters. The figure missing from the...... Read More

It’s a gown, the Killen gown, an elegant silk gown of 1870s vintage. It was worn by one of the region’s first ladies, Mary Elizabeth Killen, and her image lives on in a special exhibit at Katikati’s Western Bay Museum in the old...... Read More

“After 27 years in Tauranga we have decided to move on.” That’s the thrust of a message to The Weekend Sun this week. It’s both a message and an indictment because Ross and his partner Gay say their “nice little retirement...... Read More

It was a one-pound box of continental chocolate treasures. No cherry truffles, no grande brazils nor French vanilla creams. But for Norma Bent of Pyes Pa, the contents of that old battered chocolate box were every bit as sweet, and lived up to the...... Read More

It’ll be a big, bold, brassy sound – enough to lift the lid clean off the citadel on the corner of Cameron Road and 5th Avenue. The collective power of the Tauranga City Brass Band and the Salvation Army brass band – more than 40...... Read More

  If you grew up in the last two decades, you may remember buzzing with excitement as you lined up in front of a bus ready to meet the famous man in yellow - or should I say giraffe in yellow.   Harold the giraffe has been a part of Kiwi...... Read More