Local News

Students to get fare-free bus rides for 2020

As students around the Bay are heading back to school, parents will be pleased to know students travelling on Bayhopper buses will receive free fares through... Read More

New director appointed to 2021 Arts Festival

The Tauranga Arts Festival Trust is delighted to announce that award-winning singer and songwriter Ria Hall is to helm the 2021 Tauranga Arts Festival. Ria,... Read More

Volkswagens to shine in the sun

The VW 'Run to the Sun' is back in Tauranga for 2020. The concept is popular in the UK and Jeremy Longman pitched the idea to a few friends a few years... Read More

Nurses fundraise for Bangladesh

Three Tauranga nurses who were inspired by a grassroots healthcare programme in Bangladesh are fundraising to see its continuation. Lyn Elliot travelled... Read More

Reaching high speeds at only 16

He's been racing cars in all categories of motorsport before he was able to drive on the road. Tauranga-born teen Callum Hedge officially got his licence to... Read More

A wheelie good time during Bike Month

Bike Month 2020 is well underway with some type of biking event taking place most days throughout the month of February. To make things easier for those... Read More

How the water flows

When you turn on your tap at any time day or night, you may take it for granted that water will always come out. When it doesn't, people start to panic,... Read More

Funding the future

The Te Puke Centre Charitable Trust is now pressing ahead with the second stage of its grand vision and is aiming to raise a minimum of $100,000 in just one... Read More

Library’s empty – fill ‘er up

The Rotary Club of Tauranga book fair has been a blessing for worthwhile Tauranga groups and projects for about 33 years. In that time the Rotary Club has... Read More

Time up for Don and sons

The Stewart men will close the doors to their business in late March. And for the first time in 60-odd years no one will be back the next day to reopen... Read More

Music is a safe place

Dad's in a gang and Mum was a sex worker but Connor Boyd has quite a different plan for his life. At 26-years-old Connor Boyd or 'Kayz 1' has been through... Read More

Great steel behemoth at top of town

In just 15 months it has gone from a concept to a big hole in the ground, and now a steel skeleton is rising risen well above the fence line. The new Farmers... Read More