Local News

When George and the Bishop dropped in

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

Council admits cycle lane width unsafe

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

Pākehā Kaupapa Māori graduate bridges gaps

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

Small changes for huge impact

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

Angry driver knocks down cyclist

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

Diversifying income the name of the game

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

The people project

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

Crime worse, significant and worrying

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

Les travels the road alone

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

Kathy grumps when heavens dump

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

Sun shines on ‘Dark n’ Stormy’

'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

100 years and 1000 lights

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