Local News
12:13pm Fri 29 Sep, 2017
It's an adventure story, a marching story and a love story. It all started in Belfast 65 years ago when an enterprising young Northern Irishman called Allan Rodgers... Read More
12:12pm Fri 29 Sep, 2017
Hearing Support Bay of Plenty has a mystery on its hands. A former Hearing Association Tauranga (as it used to be called) committee member has turned up an old... Read More
12:10pm Fri 29 Sep, 2017
Tauranga's Pacific Island community is looking for a church, preferably somewhere central so it can be accessed by community members from Te Puke or Katikati,... Read More
12:06pm Fri 29 Sep, 2017
As the surviving political parties negotiate with Winston Peters over forming a government, Tauranga mayor Greg Brownless is hoping at least one of New Zealand... Read More
12:05pm Fri 29 Sep, 2017
'When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.' These lines, from the poem 'When I am an old woman I shall wear... Read More
12:04pm Fri 29 Sep, 2017
Create your happy place! The Spring Home Show is the perfect opportunity to find all your home products and service needs under one roof. Step through the doors... Read More
11:58am Fri 29 Sep, 2017
'No person shall sleep or otherwise occupy a footpath or road in the city centres….during the hours of darkness…' Nelson's hardline stance with its... Read More
11:54am Fri 29 Sep, 2017
It's time to get loud today, September 29, to help change the lives of New Zealand's deaf and hearing impaired children as part of Loud Shirt Day. Loud Shirt Day... Read More
11:51am Fri 29 Sep, 2017
He reckons if it's got four wheels you can stick a V8 engine in it. 'That's why my next project is to put a V8 in a mobility scooter and drive that around the shops,”... Read More
04:48pm Fri 22 Sep, 2017
A colourful reminder about this month's motorcycle awareness campaign arrived unexpectedly in the newsroom last week. The yellow motorcycle helmet was paid for... Read More
04:47pm Fri 22 Sep, 2017
A class of Pyes Pa School pupils is fundraising in a unique way by putting the kids' own artwork under the hammer. Room 7 teacher Brendon Oats says the plan is... Read More
04:46pm Fri 22 Sep, 2017
It started with a mat-time story about a whale and her baby and turned into three elaborate murals for the Community Kindy in Welcome Bay. Community Kindy The Bay... Read More