Local News
07:30am Fri 05 Feb, 2016
More than 15,000 reggae lovers from across the world are heading to town for the One Love Festival this Waitangi Weekend. Presented by Pato Entertainment, the fourth... Read More
03:48pm Thu 04 Feb, 2016
It's safe to say I put on a few kilos during the long weekend. Taste testing some of New Zealand's best craft beer, wine and food at On The Lawn satisfied the lips,... Read More
02:46pm Mon 01 Feb, 2016
Join in the fun and the spectacle at the second Waihi Beach Frocks on Bikes event on Sunday, February 7 - all you need is a frock, a bike, a drink bottle, sunblock... Read More
07:00am Fri 29 Jan, 2016
He is John Pheasant. He fixes and flies aeroplanes, his own Tiger Moth biplane. This Pheasant is a flyer by name and by deed. 'I am the only pheasant that needs... Read More
10:35am Mon 25 Jan, 2016
Helen Graham is a gentle, polite, and softly-spoken woman, not at all like her great-grandfather Reverend Canon Charles Jordan. The first vicar of Tauranga's Holy... Read More
12:00pm Fri 22 Jan, 2016
Tauranga YMCA is in talks with the city council about transforming the Welcome Bay tennis club into a youth centre. Tauranga manager Calum Davie announced the YMCA's... Read More
04:00am Fri 22 Jan, 2016
'Grumpy” is 198cms of environmental indignation today. 'If it was a tip, ” he says, just a little condescendingly, 'we would have refuse transfer station... Read More
12:32pm Mon 18 Jan, 2016
Excited children and adults alike braved the rain at the Omokoroa Sports Grounds today for the turning of the first sod on the community's own one-of-a-kind skating... Read More
08:00am Sat 16 Jan, 2016
It has provided entertainment, formed memories - and sometimes caused a kerfuffle with children not wanting to leave - at the back of a Mount Maunganui video store... Read More
08:00am Fri 15 Jan, 2016
Higor and Tara Fiuza arrived in white T-shirts and left covered top-to-toe in colour. They'd been to the free Colour Splash event - and Bay of Plenty residents... Read More
04:03am Fri 15 Jan, 2016
It was the day the dog, the puppy, came home. Summer, the Cocker Spaniel, was weak, lame and hungry after a week in the bush evading searchers. It was like scenes... Read More
01:00am Fri 15 Jan, 2016
There's a fat gardener, thin gardener and the main man. An unlikely triumvirate running 'TRG” - the code for Tauranga City Council's most successful commercial... Read More