Local News

Nation’s best to compete in the Bay

A grand spectacle of the nation's top gymnasts returns to Tauranga for the first time in five years as the 2023 New Zealand Gymnastics Championships gets underway... Read More

Sixty years after the Kaimai tragedy

He was a nine-year-old at his school desk. Class had just started, 9am Wednesday, July 3, 1963. Dave Hooper remembers it well. 'Our school was only a kilometre... Read More

Boxing champs back after 32 years

History in the ring from 1991 hopes to repeat itself here in Tauranga next week as the Boxing New Zealand National Championships get underway. It was this time... Read More

What’s happened to Barry?

Western Bay of Plenty residents have been issued an artistic challenge in the wake of discovering Katikati's town icon has 'disappeared'. Townsfolk woke... Read More

No more rain on their parades!

Playing sports outdoors is going to be a totally different - and dry - experience for Ōtūmoetai Primary School's 554 students next term. A new 35m by 35m Covered... Read More

Flight 441 finally makes it home

'Tauranga, this is AYZ. We're two minutes out.” The fateful final radio communication from an NAC DC3 Skyliner en route from Auckland to Tauranga at 9.06am... Read More

Oodles of book bargains!

Te Puke High School's shed has been a flurry of activity in the lead-up to this weekend's KiwiCoast Lions Club's annual book fair. Club president Maxine Shanks... Read More

Tauranga loses ‘a graceful lady’

It was sad but serendipitous at the same time. A Bay of Islands family, beset by tragedy, needed a big strong boat. Another family, a Tauranga family, beset by... Read More

Threading colour through Greerton

Threads of aqua hues will wind their way through the heart of Greerton, bringing life and joy while raising support for worthy causes this winter. On July 2,... Read More

A fascination for flying

It was a disaster…. 'Because I put in three or four months of hard work building that plane and it crashed, and was destroyed in about 10 seconds flat.” Oh,... Read More

Embracing culture through art

With each sketch, colour and brush stroke, Tauranga youngsters will reflect on what it means to embrace diversity in our community. For the fourth year, Multicultural... Read More

Mini golf hopes it won’t putt out

After more than 40 years in the heart of the city, Tauranga Mini Golf may have to say goodbye to its greens in coming years. Tauranga Mini Golf's owner Mike Head... Read More