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Mother nature’s masterpiece

'Flowers bring life into your garden… and life into your whole being.” Some profound and deeply affected thoughts from Dale Targett. She... Read More

Popping the top on Kiwi culture

He's the man behind the Southern Man, tricked Brit's into soaking their morning newspaper to get the Guinness out and a career highlight is a dancing lemon. ... Read More

Living and breathing bonsai

Shirley Faull's eyes sparkle as she talks about her love for growing bonsai trees. The lively 92-year-old Te Puke woman has invested in the practice for... Read More

Town officially takes over PO

Everything is changing, but nothing will change. When the doors open on Monday, October 7, the Te Puke Centre Charitable Trust will take over running the... Read More

The 2020 Garden Festival starts right now

The call has gone out to Bay of Plenty gardeners. With spring in the air, and summer not far off, the hunt is officially on to find new gardens to add to... Read More

“You still won’t listen to us”

Her history teacher probably captured the essence of it all. 'You know Zoe, he said, what you are doing is much more important than history. You are making history.” Zoe... Read More

Ancient greenstone Kaikauhoe

The Tauranga Heritage Collection is celebrating turning 50 years old with a stunning photographic exhibition by Adrienne Martyn. The exhibition, titled... Read More

Bay Twisters smash Cheerfactor competition

Tauranga's Bay Twisters smashed a major cheerleading competition in Auckland last weekend bringing home a stack of first places. 'Cheerfactor was a massive competition,”... Read More

Youth to learn more about the Antarctic

A Bay of Plenty student had a taste of Antarctica last weekend at the first Young Inspiring Explorers' Summit in Christchurch. The Antarctic Heritage Trust,... Read More

The humanity behind the grime

'Invisible angels' - that's what Megan Wilson calls commercial cleaners. They come in the middle of the night armed with mops and buckets, vacuums and... Read More

Of motorbikes. men‘s mental health and prostates

It's a blokey event - by blokes, for blokes, about blokes. It's motorbikes, male mental health, prostate cancer with lashings of panache and style. It's the Tauranga... Read More

Smoke, steam and nostalgia

The DA class diesel-electric mainline locomotive hauling three historically correct red NZR carriages pulled into Gate Pa mid-morning, on Tuesday this week.... Read More