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Tauranga Synchro stars to perform at Championships

Tauranga's top synchronised swimmers are training almost full-time as the city prepares to host the North Island champ's. Tauranga's Synchronised Swimming... Read More

Artist wins Fieldays No.8 Wire Art Award

Artist Gaye Jurisich has taken out top honours in the 2019 Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award with her captivating piece labelled Snare. The Fieldays... Read More

Marriage battling against statistics

Aimee-Leigh is in the market for love, true love, meaningful enduring love. Marriage. And nothing short of it. 'Absolutely! I can't wait until I do.”... Read More

Sixty years of breeding budgies

Champion Tauranga budgie breeder Warren Kilmister is elated that his cobalt blue and green 'big boys” won some of the hotly contested sections of the... Read More

Filming seaweed foraging

Filmmakers Antoinette Wilson and Jordan Osmond have been busy making short documentaries about permaculture, food forests and sustainable living. When... Read More

Musicians come together for the Galilee Mission

A fundraising concert is taking place at St. Andrews Church in Mount Maunganui for the Galilee Mission on May 18 at 2pm. United Seafarers' Mission Port... Read More

Preston Park honours Ngati Kahu

Those who remember the 'mad bomber of Bethlehem' story 25 years ago will be pleased to know there's a happy chapter starting. In March 1990 Graham Preston... Read More

Dodgy ankle strengthens resolve

She has won a summer scholarship, a one week immersion at Rambert School - one of the world's most exclusive and prestigious dance schools in London. It... Read More

Young Guns firing under coach Hill

It is fair to say Kerry Hill knows a thing or two about sprinting. The Tauranga resident is the Relays and Sprints Coordinator at Athletics New Zealand,... Read More

Traffic woes stuck in limbo

They felt fobbed off by the Tauranga City Council, so a group of Tauranga college students are ramping up the pressure to remedy what they perceive to be a... Read More

Horticulture industry seeks best young talent

The hunt is on for New Zealand's 2019 Young Horticulturist. Up for grabs is the prestige the title carries plus a prize pool of $50,000. The 2019 event... Read More

Birds delay beach project

A new beach is appearing at Kulim Park, one truck load at a time. Thousands of cubic metres of sand is being trucked in and spread out along the waterline... Read More