Local News
08:47am Fri 21 Jun, 2019
It's a story that starts with a bespectacled timber salesman and a dashing Naval lieutenant having a drink at the salubrious University Club in Seattle. Then... Read More
12:47pm Fri 14 Jun, 2019
Local cyclists are concerned about the width of the cycle lane on a key commuter's route between Mount Maunganui and Tauranga. Bike Tauranga affiliate... Read More
12:42pm Fri 14 Jun, 2019
Alex Hotere-Barnes is a Pākehā educated in a Māori immersion school and he reckons we should be working better together. He grew up in Tauranga Moana and... Read More
12:15pm Fri 14 Jun, 2019
The numbers are staggering. Bay of Plenty post-harvest operator Trevelyan's saved more than 300 tonnes of waste from landfill last year. That's the equivalent... Read More
12:15pm Fri 14 Jun, 2019
Local cyclist Gerard Eagar was knocked off his bike on Queen's Birthday Weekend and he is urging the driver who hit him to use their 'rage” energy to... Read More
12:14pm Fri 14 Jun, 2019
Starting out with sheep 30 years ago, the Honeyfield family at Welcome Bay, Tauranga, have diversified their 100ha farm into four different revenue streams... Read More
11:45am Fri 14 Jun, 2019
Three years ago Amie Marchant wouldn't say 'boo' to a mouse. Now she is performing in school productions, giving speeches to hundreds of people... Read More
11:44am Fri 14 Jun, 2019
Caseloads at Tauranga's District Court are at record highs. 'The most ever,” says an in-house Ministry of Justice factsheet slipped to The Weekend Sun. 'You... Read More
09:53am Fri 14 Jun, 2019
The Tauranga Mayoral candidate is a broken-hearted man. Because when Les Wallen and his wife Dell decided to 'walk the road together and see what happened”,... Read More
09:52am Fri 14 Jun, 2019
Kathy Fathers is 'all wound up” and calling in a ten-year-old promise she says was made to her by the Tauranga City Council. 'It's not too early,”... Read More
09:52am Fri 14 Jun, 2019
'Dark n' Stormy' - sounds like a clichéd opening gambit to a melodrama, or perhaps the TV weather gurus warning of a low pressure system menacing the... Read More
09:51am Fri 14 Jun, 2019
When most of us are rugging up, hunkering down and cranking up the electric blanket, Tauranga's Waldorf School in Welcome Bay Road is actually welcoming winter... Read More












