Waipuna Hospice is challenging people to brave the cold and bare their legs. Individuals, groups, schools and businesses can do the Shorts4Hospice fundraiser... Read More

They have a dream - a mega Centre for Ageing Well in Tauranga. Age Concern Tauranga has a growing constituency and it wants those people to be well looked... Read More

Beggars demanding sex acts from an innocent woman in the Tauranga CBD. Passersby being followed to their cars and harassed, people being yelled at and other... Read More

He's done it a million excruciating times since Sunday November 19 - reliving the Taupo fire truck accident that robbed him of the use of his legs, left him... Read More

A local charitable trust is in desperate need of a new home and is feeling shaken by the high market price of rentals in the area. Breast Cancer Support... Read More

Horse chestnuts by name - but not even the horses will eat them. 'Only deer and wild boar can eat them because of their toxicity,” says Ted Santi... Read More

Dogs will be darting about at their day out this weekend in a fundraising event organised by the recently established Pyes Pa/Tauriko Lions Branch Club. ... Read More

Several local authors and illustrators have been shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. The awards celebrate the contribution... Read More

Put a ring around number 25. It means Karyn Bradford is a winner. So too are the kids at the childcare centre she runs and the Homes of Hope which is an... Read More

While many people are hunkering down in front of the fire and TV next Friday and Saturday evening, dozens of brave and hardy souls will be going on a five kilometer,... Read More

Kaiser was just following his natural gun dog instincts - seeing, chasing, catching. In this case it was geese that took Kaisers fancy. Kaiser is a German shorthaired... Read More

Te Puke locals have taken matters into their own hands by becoming operators of the local NZ Post. There were a few defining moments when the progressive and... Read More