Local News
09:00am Fri 28 Mar, 2025
Friends and parents of a Te Puke school family have banded together to run a movie night fundraiser for one of their own facing adversity. Te Puke woman Sarena... Read More
09:00am Fri 28 Mar, 2025
A new $2.1 million wharf is being built at Panepane Point, on the southeastern tip of Matakana Island. The new structure, including two jetties and a pontoon,... Read More
09:00am Fri 28 Mar, 2025
Flag football fun is coming to Mount Manganui's Blake Park on Wednesday, April 2, with more than 16 schools from across the Bay of Plenty participating. The... Read More
09:00am Fri 28 Mar, 2025
It's the closest you'll get to having a Cook Islands holiday without getting on a plane. For the first time, the annual Flavour of Plenty is giving locals the... Read More
09:00am Fri 28 Mar, 2025
Two kittens, one grey and one black with white patches, play in the centre of the room in Welcome Bay. Both were only two weeks old when Wild to Warmth Cat... Read More
09:00am Fri 28 Mar, 2025
Tauranga ratepayers face a proposed overall rates rise of 12% from July, but the mayor says it could have been more than 20% if the council hadn't found... Read More
09:00am Fri 28 Mar, 2025
The proposed review of electorate boundaries for the 2025 election will significantly change the Bay of Plenty and Tauranga electorates. Tauranga is set to... Read More
09:00am Fri 28 Mar, 2025
They're not the typically big, gnarly, calloused hands of a man of the land. 'No. They're small.” Not farmers' hands, but are farmer's hands - because... Read More
09:05am Fri 21 Mar, 2025
Excitement is building as the 2025 National Skateboarding Championships draw near, with top skateboarders from across New Zealand set to compete in Mount Maunganui... Read More
09:00am Fri 21 Mar, 2025
He looks and sounds like any other Tauranga resident going about living in the Bay of Plenty. But for this Brother, his 'brotherhood” is fast disappearing... Read More
09:00am Fri 21 Mar, 2025
'I was pleased to hear… it was a genuine problem, it wasn't just my imagination, and it wasn't just me,” says Carol Hudson, recalling the moment... Read More
09:00am Fri 21 Mar, 2025
Western Bay community boards have hit back at a proposal to merge, with one saying it would be 'eroding a democracy”. At an appeal hearing... Read More