Local News
10:01am Fri 21 Apr, 2017
It's why Lions are Lions. To serve. It's why Neil Clarke is a Lion. 'Been a Lion since 1955,” the Mount Maunganui man says proudly. 'I was one of 22 foundation... Read More
09:59am Fri 21 Apr, 2017
Next weekend lining up at the pars at McLaren Falls' disc golf course could get a little squishy - with the country's keenest disc golfers flying into town for... Read More
09:55am Fri 21 Apr, 2017
Thousands of Bay of Plenty residents will wake in darkness and head to Anzac parades and services next Tuesday, April 25, to remember those who paid the ultimate... Read More
09:54am Fri 21 Apr, 2017
Last week The Weekend Sun met Doug Attrill - a 93-year-old with a war story - how his ship got bombed, how a skirmish with a Japanese submarine contributed to... Read More
10:36am Thu 13 Apr, 2017
It's the bugle call that ends the day. It's also the final salute to the fallen, to those killed in war. Haunting and moving. And on April 25, ANZAC Day, 'The Last... Read More
10:05am Thu 13 Apr, 2017
The finest jazz musicians from home and abroad will get Tauranga jumping and jiving and grooving this Easter Weekend with the return of National Jazz Festival. Today... Read More
09:57am Thu 13 Apr, 2017
The research was disgusting. The admission even more disgusting. And both caused jitters, little ripples of urea, chloride, sodium and potassium - piddle in other... Read More
09:51am Thu 13 Apr, 2017
Usually, we associate the glory of car racing to the man behind the wheel. But a lot of what goes on under the bonnet and at the hand of the spanner has a huge... Read More
09:38am Fri 07 Apr, 2017
Think about it. If a businessperson spends 9am-5pm every working day at their desk, that's eight hours a day deskbound. Forty hours a week, or 160 hours a month... Read More
09:36am Fri 07 Apr, 2017
I am a potato peel pariah - one of Tauranga's despised 'one baggers'. I put all of my domestic rubbish - paper, plastic, tins, bottles, in fact everything that... Read More
09:33am Fri 07 Apr, 2017
They come hurtling round the corner in the big red fire truck and suddenly there's hope. 'It's an amazing sense of satisfaction, enormously rewarding,” says... Read More
09:32am Fri 07 Apr, 2017
Terry 'Hori BOP' Leaming wants to see Prime Minister Bill English spend some of the recently announced government's budget surplus money on making the Maungatapu... Read More












