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Has coach forsaken the Eels?

It was a memorable season on the pitch for the Otumoetai Eels Rugby League Club - going all the way to the semis in the boiling league cauldron that is Waikato.... Read More

Give Eugenie the ammo she needs

After 15 years of lobbying successive governments on advanced recycling fees, there's a chance to fix it now, and fix it for a long time. So speak up, have... Read More

The precious kauri trees of the Kaimai Ranges

A structure of wooden planks, used in the 1900s to gather and unleash water to 'drive' kauri logs down Western Bay of Plenty hills to sawmills, is juxtaposed... Read More

Fractions, decimals and Captain Cook

Rosalie Crawford was being flippant, but in jokes can lie truth. Rosalie mused that if Katherine Mansfield had schooled at the tiny kauri schoolhouse rotting... Read More

Young cops home to serve

She hasn't seen it all, but she has seen a lot of it. Kate Cleave, Constable Kate Cleave, fresh out of police college and just two days on the cold, mean streets... Read More

Reading rules the roost

Technology is a huge part of modern education but the humble book still has its place. Brookfield School deputy principal Carol Burborough knows a thing or two... Read More

Woman with the golden eye

The name's Bond - Jo Bond - and she has a licence to thrill. You need that special touch when it comes to finding the right people for the biennial Tauranga... Read More

What’s with the fancy hat?

Puran Singh hasn't had a haircut for 48 years - in fact he's never had a haircut. 'Never, never, never in my life” insists this elder and president... Read More

Quietly growing the chorus of female angels

Popular culture paints angels as female, the Bible as blokes. Either or, Nina Le Lievre, the new archangel or CEO of Enterprise Angels, the group that connects... Read More

MPs scrap over new school

Two Tauranga MPs are trading shots over the building of a new secondary school at Omokoroa. Bay of Plenty MP Todd Muller started the firefight by 'slamming... Read More

Why do cars get best views of the harbour?

'Crazy!” says Peter Kageyama gazing over Tauranga's waterfront carpark. 'Crazy, just crazy.” Perhaps the most valuable piece of land in Tauranga's... Read More

Saving a rare frog

A network of 700 automated kill traps is standing guard over a unique population of native frogs near Te Puke, part of a joint effort to make 'leaps' in their... Read More