Lin Keo needs no introduction to how hard life can be. You may remember her beautiful smiling face walking down the catwalk draped in silks, or you might... Read More

Norma Hollis was weeding the garden the day an assassin's bullet took JFK in Dallas, Texas in 1963. She also remembers she was in the kitchen of her Hillsborough... Read More

They are the family that featured in an episode of popular TV show Wanted Down Under. Now they are ensconced in Tauranga and unlikely to leave. 'We love New Zealand... Read More

There's a garden revolution happening in Mount Maunganui. Gone are the days of relying on grandad for a free bag of tomatoes or a feed of feijoas. Now it's the... Read More

A church in Tauranga's CBD is losing its bell tower, and the prominent site may even be sold altogether. Saint Mary Immaculate Church, on the corner of Cameron... Read More

It's quite bold and quite brilliant, and has sprouted from the empty Chapel and Mission Streets corner site at the historic Elms/Te Papa mission house over... Read More

Should there be a ban on the sale of turtles in New Zealand? This is the question that has been raised after a nest of exotic red-eared slider turtles was opened... Read More

Time challenged Tauranga commuters have discovered an enterprising new way of beating the city's peak time traffic snarls. But at the same time, they may be... Read More

I was a right klutz, a right stumblebum. I had just had a privileged but confronting few minutes chatting life and death with Kristie Purton - one of the Cystic... Read More

People couldn't believe what they were seeing. Around 20 teenagers were clambering up the girders of the Matapihi rail bridge before leaping about 15 metres into... Read More

There were more than 30 days without a drop of rain in Tauranga, and we were sweating it. The baked dry landscape at Papamoa, captured by Weekend Sun photographer... Read More

While every other bus driver and bus service in town is copping it in the neck right now, the public persona of at least one driver is flourishing. 'Baldev is... Read More