Local News

Crime worse, significant and worrying

Caseloads at Tauranga's District Court are at record highs. 'The most ever,” says an in-house Ministry of Justice factsheet slipped to The Weekend Sun. 'You... Read More

Les travels the road alone

The Tauranga Mayoral candidate is a broken-hearted man. Because when Les Wallen and his wife Dell decided to 'walk the road together and see what happened”,... Read More

Kathy grumps when heavens dump

Kathy Fathers is 'all wound up” and calling in a ten-year-old promise she says was made to her by the Tauranga City Council. 'It's not too early,”... Read More

Sun shines on ‘Dark n’ Stormy’

'Dark n' Stormy' - sounds like a clichéd opening gambit to a melodrama, or perhaps the TV weather gurus warning of a low pressure system menacing the... Read More

100 years and 1000 lights

When most of us are rugging up, hunkering down and cranking up the electric blanket, Tauranga's Waldorf School in Welcome Bay Road is actually welcoming winter... Read More

Raising the hemline

Waipuna Hospice is challenging people to brave the cold and bare their legs. Individuals, groups, schools and businesses can do the Shorts4Hospice fundraiser... Read More

Seniors think big

They have a dream - a mega Centre for Ageing Well in Tauranga. Age Concern Tauranga has a growing constituency and it wants those people to be well looked... Read More

Drugs sold outside Mayor’s window

Beggars demanding sex acts from an innocent woman in the Tauranga CBD. Passersby being followed to their cars and harassed, people being yelled at and other... Read More

Cruising free as the breeze

He's done it a million excruciating times since Sunday November 19 - reliving the Taupo fire truck accident that robbed him of the use of his legs, left him... Read More

Move proves tricky

A local charitable trust is in desperate need of a new home and is feeling shaken by the high market price of rentals in the area. Breast Cancer Support... Read More

Pitfalls lurking amongst autumn beauty

Horse chestnuts by name - but not even the horses will eat them. 'Only deer and wild boar can eat them because of their toxicity,” says Ted Santi... Read More

Dogs dare to be different

Dogs will be darting about at their day out this weekend in a fundraising event organised by the recently established Pyes Pa/Tauriko Lions Branch Club. ... Read More