Digging soil, harvesting vegetables, growing flowers and doing 'real, genuine hands-on work”. These are the projects that will keep Tauranga students... Read More

Step into Bethlehem, Tauranga, and find yourself stepping back in time to Bethlehem, Jerusalem, to experience the original Christmas story. The Road to... Read More

A surf lifesaver from Switzerland - what are the chances? Switzerland is landlocked, there is no surf. But there is 20-year-old Cyril Senften, a Swiss... Read More

It's the face of a prize-fighter. Teeth missing, nose wonky, and many of the colourful episodes in this man's life are inked all over his body. 'I won't... Read More

The Bay of Plenty Regional Council wave buoy is back for summer, providing keen surfers and boaties with real-time reporting of sea conditions. It's located... Read More

Clean, green community members were left in shock after picking up about 100kg of trash in Mount Maunganui last weekend. A group of 70 volunteers spared... Read More

An enormous pohutukawa takes root in downtown Mount Maunganui, standing tall among new residential developments. The Pitau Road tree, which is estimated... Read More

The workshop is thick with blokes and blokey things - buzzers, bench saws, mitre saws, band saws, scroll saws. But they're not for Jean Crabtree. 'If... Read More

To paraphrase Charles Dickens, it has been the best of times and the worst of times for Bay of Plenty Steamers locks Baden Wardlaw and Aaron Carroll. Initially... Read More

Whanaungatanga means togetherness. And that's the theme driving next week's first-ever community Christmas celebration at Hungahungaturoa Marae. The event... Read More

Tauranga woman Clare Williamson is sharing her story of trauma and transformation for the good of the planet. She's determined to plant 100,000 trees in the Brazilian... Read More

It's a rogue power pole. And it's been wilfully crunching fenders and bumpers in suburban Tauranga for years. That's what neighbours say, that's the power... Read More