The festive season is a wonderful time of celebrating, feasting and giving. But the season is also the most wasteful time of the year. Tauranga's transfer stations... Read More

I loved the rigmarole. It would start in October, when Mary Winifred - her Christian names - or nana, bless her, started squirreling fruit and nuts for her Christmas... Read More

The Bay of Plenty is in line for the Government's $1.4 billion Safe Network Programme. The three-year programme to make New Zealand's highest risk roads safer... Read More

Break out your best stockings and tunics, gowns and wimples. Strike up the harp, the lute and the hammered dulcimer and take your partners for a Maltese bransle. Yes,... Read More

Should buses be given their own peak-time space up and down Cameron Road? In other words, a bus clearway? Should buses be given priority over parked cars for people... Read More

The Firefighters' Calendar has taken on a new look for 2019, and will feature the ever-popular emergency service members alongside Child Cancer ambassadors. In... Read More

From mini kicks at Otumoetai Football Club, through Tauranga City's high-achieving women's team, to a World Cup bronze medal winner - that's the tale of Ayla Pratt's... Read More

Croatia has gorgeous rocky shorelines lapped by warm azure sea, but there is more to this European favourite, and certain things are not to be missed. Now, you... Read More

A former Tauranga Boys' College student's dream of being a fitness instructor in the navy is now a reality. After college, Chief Petty Officer Marc Thomas studied... Read More

The bees may be the real winners from a proposed makeover of the rules governing dogs and other animals in Tauranga. Tauranga City Council's community and culture... Read More

Defending Mount Monster champion Hamish Miller reckons he's as fit as he's ever been. But don't take that as a guarantee he'll be able to back up in Saturday's... Read More

Her given name is ZK-GAU. The family name is Slingsby. This week, the 62-year-old lady came home - carted over the Kaimai Range in pieces to Tauranga, where she... Read More