'Let's go outside and chat. I just love sunny days.” Natural enough considering the dark, gloomy and scary places that Leisa Renwick has visited recently. 'Melanoma... Read More

About 20 anti-mining protestors climbed Mount Karangahake last week to disrupt an exploratory drilling programme. Newcrest Gold Mining company is planning three... Read More

This is a story about a martial artist, a truck driver, a photographer, a scuba diver, and a man and his dog. It's a story about not letting anything hold you back. You... Read More

'Genius' - that's how Colin Lunt describes his long-time associate, friend and Kokomo frontman Derek Jacombs. To celebrate the Tauranga band's 25th birthday this... Read More

It's an old steel truss bridge - functional rather than fussy. And all day it rumbles to the tune of the East Coast's main trunkline container traffic. Into the... Read More

It cranked and cranked. Then it cranked some more. Eight to 10 men with avgas coursing through their veins, all in hi viz, all with hearts in mouths and hopes soaring... Read More

The army recruiter probably saved George Alexander Wootton's butt. He was young and reckless and wanted to teach 'those bloody Germans” a lesson. 'I am not... Read More

It was a pilgrimage of sorts back to her roots in the Bay of Plenty, to where she grew up and was educated. She read her poetry at an Anzac Day commemoration but... Read More

It's just gone 8.45am, she's taking her three-year-old to day care, she's fending off a pesky reporter on hands free, dispelling myths, contemplating the essence... Read More

It all looked a bit incongruous really. Given name John, John Herbison - spiritual name Yasoda Dulal - is standing in the middle of small-town New Zealand, the... Read More

Mother's day is a time to appreciate mum but for one Tauranga woman this Sunday represents celebrating motherly figures in your life - whether they are relatives... Read More

This October we all get to have our say on who runs our city via the local body elections - but the process of voting will not be dragged into the 21st Century... Read More