There are the garish throw-ups under the approaches to the Tauranga Harbour Bridge and beyond the gaze of most locals. Blockbusters they're called apparently.... Read More

The call has gone out for heaters - lots of heaters, column or radiator heaters that are of no further use but are still in good working order. 'Let it... Read More

On Friday, the kiwifruit industry celebrated the 60th anniversary of renaming the kiwifruit in 1959. On Friday August 9, the Te Puke War Memorial Hall... Read More

A rugby nation mourns the passing of a luminary, a great man. And other men, rugby men, have been trading yarns how they played with BJ, played against... Read More

It's not quite the Jacob's ladder which led to heaven but 30 or 40 concrete steps to be built up the long steep bank from the playing field at Mitchell Park... Read More

It was a memorable season on the pitch for the Otumoetai Eels Rugby League Club - going all the way to the semis in the boiling league cauldron that is Waikato.... Read More

After 15 years of lobbying successive governments on advanced recycling fees, there's a chance to fix it now, and fix it for a long time. So speak up, have... Read More

A structure of wooden planks, used in the 1900s to gather and unleash water to 'drive' kauri logs down Western Bay of Plenty hills to sawmills, is juxtaposed... Read More

Rosalie Crawford was being flippant, but in jokes can lie truth. Rosalie mused that if Katherine Mansfield had schooled at the tiny kauri schoolhouse rotting... Read More

She hasn't seen it all, but she has seen a lot of it. Kate Cleave, Constable Kate Cleave, fresh out of police college and just two days on the cold, mean streets... Read More

Technology is a huge part of modern education but the humble book still has its place. Brookfield School deputy principal Carol Burborough knows a thing or two... Read More

The name's Bond - Jo Bond - and she has a licence to thrill. You need that special touch when it comes to finding the right people for the biennial Tauranga... Read More