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Out with a bang

'I don't want it to live, to be honest. I'd rather it go gracefully and in one piece.” So Ben Critchley will do just that, by giving his '98 Toyota Corolla... Read More

The purple and red Olympics

It's a games that will make you giggle. Throwing ducks into a roasting pan or ping pong balls into bra cups. The Limpy Games is the Red Hatter group's version... Read More

Business celebrated in Te Puke

A Te Puke property management and investment company has taken home top honours at the 2018 Te Puke Business Awards. Jellicoe Industrial Park also won the Ag/Hort/Industrial... Read More

The aftermath of an avalanche

A Tauranga climber who dug herself out to safety after being buried by an avalanche in the South Island is safe and well. Bay of Plenty adventurer Jo Morgan was... Read More

Stone columns mark milestone for new road link

The first of 3400 stone columns, which would reach from Mount Maunganui to Waihi Beach if they were laid out end-to-end, have been installed on the Baypark to... Read More

Sustainability inspires concept garden

They're called concept gardens, and will live on well beyond the Bay of Plenty Garden and Art Festival later this month. Six local landscape designers/architects... Read More

Views on whitebait management sought

With four of New Zealand's six whitebait species classified as threatened or at risk of extinction, the Department of Conservation is consulting New Zealanders... Read More

Gold quality food at Mount childcare centre

Kumara and chickpea curry, beef chilli, and wholemeal pasta salad with chicken, corn, peas, tomato, broccoli and cheese. Impossible meals to get into a toddler,... Read More

Old McDonald dragged into 2018

The farmer has been written out of the children's ditty 'Old McDonald had a Farm'. 'Yes, it's back to the forest,” says children's author Rebecca Larsen... Read More

Pets allowed in Housing NZ properties

Housing New Zealand is now a pet-friendly landlord, with tenants now allowed to keep dogs, cats, livestock animals kept as pets, birds, fish and small animals... Read More

Turning chicken coops into houses

Today The Weekend Sun continues its journey through Melanesia with Tauranga Labour MP Jan Tinetti and a parliamentary delegation. The delegation was looking at... Read More

Bold business plan to buy local post office

It has all the hallmarks of Victor Kiam - the amiable American entrepreneur who liked the Remington shaver so much he went out and bought the company. When a... Read More