Local News
11:30am Fri 04 Mar, 2016
An opportunity to go up against the 'best of the bots' at the VEX Robotics World Championships has been awarded to House of Science Tauranga after qualifying at... Read More
10:30am Fri 04 Mar, 2016
He was fully fledged Black Power, he was violent, 'beat on his missus” and had serious alcohol and drugs issues. And 'no” he couldn't talk to The Weekend... Read More
09:15am Fri 04 Mar, 2016
Jeanne and Hardie Drake's seven decade romance is the kind of love that Hollywood make movies about. The year was 1945 and World War Two was coming to a close.... Read More
09:09am Fri 04 Mar, 2016
Pet Perfect is a monthly feature in The Weekend Sun and we want to see your pets. Send your cute animal snaps to editorials@thesun.co.nz or post them on our Facebook... Read More
09:00am Fri 04 Mar, 2016
Tauranga woman Sarah Brown has created a new ABC learning game to assist children to learn the letters and letter sounds in a fun and easy way. Formerly a Year... Read More
08:38am Fri 04 Mar, 2016
16th Avenue Theatre's Playgroup is proudly presenting a free dramatic reading of George Farquar's The Recruiting Officer tonight, from 7pm. Written in 1706, the... Read More
08:30am Fri 04 Mar, 2016
A family of six, including a baby, are coming to terms with health issues they say they have accrued from three years of unknowingly living in a former Tauranga... Read More
07:00am Fri 04 Mar, 2016
After 18 years of medieval combat, Charlie Tapsell's worst injury is a lost toenail. 'I wasn't wearing my steel feet and I kicked [someone] right in the shin.” Not... Read More
05:00pm Fri 26 Feb, 2016
Eccentric? - 'Guilty!” Or obsessed? - 'Mmm - probably not”. But he is an old cop. And he does collect hats. Police hats and helmets. And they line his... Read More
03:00pm Fri 26 Feb, 2016
The alternative New Zealand flag is running into resistance. The Tauranga City Council version flying at BayCourt was stolen on Waitangi weekend. The one on the... Read More
01:00pm Fri 26 Feb, 2016
They have lived, loved, worked and travelled together all 65 years of their marriage. They've hardly been out of each other's sight. And here they are - Charles... Read More
11:23am Fri 26 Feb, 2016
Mount Maunganui local Krista Davis is a dreamer - but one who is turning her dreams into reality. The alcohol and drug clinician is the founder of the Live for... Read More