Mount Maunganui Lions Club is sizzling up a storm this lunch time. They are unveiling the new barbecue they have donated to Moa Park. Club secretary George Pocock... Read More

The Bay's favourite, most-read newspaper is now officially the favourite of the nation's print industry. The Weekend Sun has won the country's top printing prize... Read More

They were hunkered down behind locked doors in the Arataki Community Centre and plotting. 'It starts right here,” says Phil Twyford, senior Labour politician,... Read More

Tauranga City Council's next round of community events funding is open for applications, which encourages those oprgnaising events that connect the community, celebrate... Read More

No thank you! We're the conservative Christian bastion of Tauranga. Nude yoga may be okay in 'anything goes' Auckland enclaves like Westmere, but here in the Bay... Read More

The country's had its say, $26 million has been spent and the alternative flag has been committed to the shredder without so much as a flutter. But that doesn't... Read More

It's been one of life's interesting role reversals. The master became servant for the servant who is now the master. And soon the master who became the servant... Read More

'Let's go outside and chat. I just love sunny days.” Natural enough considering the dark, gloomy and scary places that Leisa Renwick has visited recently. 'Melanoma... Read More

About 20 anti-mining protestors climbed Mount Karangahake last week to disrupt an exploratory drilling programme. Newcrest Gold Mining company is planning three... Read More

This is a story about a martial artist, a truck driver, a photographer, a scuba diver, and a man and his dog. It's a story about not letting anything hold you back. You... Read More

'Genius' - that's how Colin Lunt describes his long-time associate, friend and Kokomo frontman Derek Jacombs. To celebrate the Tauranga band's 25th birthday this... Read More

It's an old steel truss bridge - functional rather than fussy. And all day it rumbles to the tune of the East Coast's main trunkline container traffic. Into the... Read More