City Life
07:55am Fri 07 Jun, 2024
Operation Cover Up once again has lofty knitting goals - and Bay of Plenty needles are clicking to the challenge. Launching more than 20 years ago, the... Read More
07:54am Fri 07 Jun, 2024
Disc golf enthusiasts are invited to 'putt' their skills to the test at a new nine-hole course at TECT Park. Disc golf, or frisbee golf, is played much... Read More
07:53am Fri 07 Jun, 2024
A new community centre is coming to Gate Pā, and members of the community can proudly say they've played a part in the shaping of it. According to Tauranga... Read More
08:11am Fri 09 Feb, 2024
The favourite part of Rowan Ford Dawson's job is seeing people's faces light up when they know it's circus class. '[I love] Watching the students get joy... Read More
08:00am Fri 17 Nov, 2023
Western Bay Museum's latest exhibition 'Treasures of Cultures' is like a large mirror reflecting the melting pot of people and families - their cultures, stories... Read More
02:29pm Mon 23 Oct, 2023
Debbie McCauley has a writer's conundrum. Two people are murdered, eaten and their heads rolled down the aisle at a church service. It's not the dark... Read More
06:00am Fri 19 May, 2023
…..998, 999, 1000 - hallelujah!! That's 1000 bicycles patched up, flashed up and back in full working order. A break pad here, a new tyre there. Those... Read More
06:00am Fri 19 May, 2023
She's been singing for as long as she can remember - now she's released her very own song titled 'Tug of War'. Tauranga 16-year-old Venice Harris has already... Read More
06:00am Fri 19 May, 2023
A new cycleway is under construction to wind beneath Wairoa Bridge on State Highway 2. Western Bay of Plenty motorists are furious it's being put in place - and... Read More
06:00am Fri 19 May, 2023
The pupils at Te Kura o Manunui in Brookfield are quite savvy about China. School leaders Devon, Ryley, Caleb, Chanel, Te Ariki, Paikea, Shaylah and Kaleb - that's... Read More
06:00am Fri 19 May, 2023
It is Hospice Awareness Week - and Richard Thurlow wants to raise awareness of how dire straits the funding level is for hospices like our own in the Western Bay... Read More
06:00am Fri 19 May, 2023
'We dug our trenches behind rocky ground covered with ferns and bushes. Early next morning we jumped out to see gliders and bombers coming in from the sea. Paratroops... Read More