Income equality advocates Closing the Gap have called for the introduction of a 'living wage' to ensure workers across New Zealand can live on what they earn. Closing... Read More

The Bowentown Boat Club will host a music jam session on Sunday, January 20,from 4-7pm. Featuring local band Paper Road, the event provides an opportunity for... Read More

Greerton Village has a vibrant year planned. From the popular community yarn bombing to steampunk, vintage cars, markets, festivals and spring blossoms, the... Read More

For the Bay of Plenty's Sam Curtis, captain of Northern Spirit in the women's edition of the Super Smash T/20 competition, it's been something of a breakthrough... Read More

It's a gloomy image. The equivalent of 700 jumbo jets full of beverage containers dumped into the environment or landfills each year. And it's costing New Zealand... Read More

David Thompson was right. It probably did feel like an obituary. 'Now he's gone,” read The Weekend Sun story about barber Werner Gamma's departure. 'The... Read More

Tauranga school boy Austin Taylor has danced his way to the top of Australia's Follow Your Dreams competition, held in the first week of January. Representing... Read More

Wrong, wrong and wrong. But happy to explain why. The man who manages Tauranga city's domestic water supply has responded to some myths and misunderstandings... Read More

It has been an arduous journey back to international cricket for Doug Bracewell. The 28-year-old all-rounder hit the big time in only his second Test in 2011,... Read More

He's little more than eight weeks old, but Salem, the little black tom with the white bib and socks, has already used up two or three of his nine lives. Salem... Read More

Glen Afton. Where's Glen Afton? It's a coal mine where 11 men were asphyxiated by carbon monoxide in 1939? 'That's exactly what I mean! History is disappearing.”... Read More

It's more than just wearing a black singlet and stubbies like our favourite bloke Wal' Footrot. Sheep shearing is a historical trade, where more time equals less... Read More