Riding for the Disabled, like many support services, can't operate without volunteers. 'These people give and give and give,” says Tauranga RDA marketing... Read More

'He's from their world,” says Merivale Primary School principal Jan Tinetti. 'So he will fit in just beautifully.” 'He' is a shorty, just 200 millimetres... Read More

Genteel by reputation but it's getting meaner, more menacing out there on the streets of Tauranga. Ask the parking officers. They see it and experience it most... Read More

The hand of understanding and support is going out to parents living secretively with the shame and guilt of having methamphetamine-addicted kids. It comes from... Read More

Well-known local artist Val Tubman won the Trustpower Supreme Award at Tauranga Society of Artists' 2016 Art Expo this month. Members of the Tauranga Society of... Read More

Getting children to wash their hands can be a mission, as every parent knows, but Sophie Best, Millie Hubbard and five other entrepreneurs have found a way to make... Read More

Peg Cummins is a writer. And she's become a writer fairly fast. Originally a primary school teacher, Peg had been teaching for about 40 years and retired when she... Read More

Real estate agents in Otumoetai, Bellevue and Matua - listen up! Ross Stewart has a beef with you. And he knows he's not alone. 'Why do you think you have a God-given... Read More

On January 21 Tauranga's Charmaine Garner and Dion Mair were in a position no parents ever want to be in. Their five-year-old son Jaxon Mair was in Starship children's... Read More

Tauranga Girls' College danced their way into first place at Stage Challenge's first night of entertainment at Baycourt Community and Art Centre's Addison Theatre... Read More

Stephanie Harper comes from the beautiful seaside suburb of Mount Maunganui, where she's used to ending the day on a full tummy and easy access to clean tap water... Read More

A man walks into a bar. No, it's not a joke. He orders a steak, a rib eye. Cooked medium. Hold the vegetables, hold the mushrooms and hold the jus too. Just the... Read More