Local News
09:25am Fri 07 Apr, 2017
He's only driven 10km in the car - but Tauranga's David Holder isn't letting this put him off a rare opportunity to drive as part of the Hyundai NZ Rally Team in... Read More
11:02am Fri 31 Mar, 2017
Although the stockcar class required a runoff to determine the Bay of Plenty champion, it was the saloons and super saloons that provided the closest racing at... Read More
10:34am Fri 31 Mar, 2017
It was pandemonium. English singer-songwriter and international superstar Adele steps on stage and 45,000 people go off. Cheers, yelling, clapping, whistling, yahooing. But... Read More
10:23am Fri 31 Mar, 2017
Ron and Marion Chamberlain wanted compensation for what they describe as half a cruise line experience. 'Only half our cabin was useable” says Ron. So, he... Read More
10:17am Fri 31 Mar, 2017
Charles and Janine Williams have been creating an owl - called 'ruru' in Maori - on the side of a building in Dive Crescent as part of the Tauranga Paradox Street... Read More
10:14am Fri 31 Mar, 2017
Players and spectators at local rugby games might notice referees have an extra coloured card up their sleeve. As well as the usual red and yellow cards, refs now... Read More
10:08am Fri 31 Mar, 2017
Wife of 38 years, 'Ans', has never seen Gerry's upper lip. Never, ever. All of her married life she's had to kiss a moustache. It's a fine moustache though - of... Read More
10:22am Fri 24 Mar, 2017
Ladies and Gentleman - it's time to don your fancy frocks and frills, grab your wallets and gather the kids - because tomorrow Racing Tauranga is hosting a horse... Read More
10:13am Fri 24 Mar, 2017
Some of the CBD's streets and walls are being given a cosmopolitan dress-up by some of the world's finest street artists. 'It's a chance for Tauranga to position... Read More
10:09am Fri 24 Mar, 2017
Tauranga horse trainer Jim Pender has been four times lucky - training four winning horses to claim the Windsor Park Stud Japan NZ International Trophy at Tauranga... Read More
10:00am Fri 24 Mar, 2017
'They just wanted us out, plain and simple”. And whenever Brenda Butler - former manager of the Cargo Shed arts collective on Dive Crescent - sees another... Read More
01:21pm Fri 17 Mar, 2017
The headlines read: 'Stakes boosted'. Robert Silson had announced an extra $3000 to the stakes in the Japan-Bay of Plenty International horse race, making it the... Read More












