Local News
02:54pm Fri 20 Apr, 2018
'Their name liveth for evermore.” A line from Ecclesiasticus, chapter 44, verse 14, which English writer Rudyard Kipling suggested as an epitaph to be carved... Read More
02:52pm Fri 20 Apr, 2018
This by-election covers the extraordinary vacancy for one Tauranga City councillor elected at-large. The vacancy has arisen from the recent death of Councillor... Read More
02:40pm Fri 20 Apr, 2018
A Tauranga couple who took a public stand last year against inadequate seating for wheelchair patrons and their companions at Event Cinemas Tauranga finally got... Read More
02:39pm Fri 20 Apr, 2018
A free, volunteer-driven community run that has taken the country by storm since reaching New Zealand shores in 2012 is coming to Tauranga this month. The first... Read More
02:38pm Fri 20 Apr, 2018
Tauranga's Graham Burns is stumped as to why his orange kumara has grown to the size of a rugby ball, but he is happy to show off his prized possession with the... Read More
02:37pm Fri 20 Apr, 2018
'I have been bombed by Hitler, I have been shot at by the Chinese. And you Kiwis have been bloody rude to me ever since I landed here. I have had the whole lot.” Ernie... Read More
02:37pm Fri 20 Apr, 2018
Kiwi women who have decided not to be victims anymore are showing off their new-found empowerment in a personalised and heartfelt book. Beautifully Scarred by photographer... Read More
02:36pm Fri 20 Apr, 2018
About 100 local writers have had their names immortalised forever on the cover of a published book following the publication of 'A People's History of The Bay of... Read More
02:35pm Fri 20 Apr, 2018
Tauranga specialist information librarian Stephanie Smith has been 'longing” to share the little-known story of famous Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw's... Read More
02:34pm Fri 20 Apr, 2018
Are the kids driving you crazy yet? One of the easiest, and cheapest, ways to keep them entertained in the school holidays is to head to the nearest playground.... Read More
02:33pm Fri 20 Apr, 2018
This year's Anzac Day Civic Service will be held at 9am on Wednesday, April 25 at Memorial Park, Tauranga, commemorating 103 years since the Battle of Gallipoli. Free... Read More
02:32pm Fri 20 Apr, 2018
They say good things come in threes - an adage that could not be truer for the Thorburn family when it comes to musical theatre. Father Ian Thorburn, and his sons... Read More