Local News
11:36am Fri 19 Apr, 2019
Horses will be honoured and welcomed on Te Puna's Anzac Day Hikoi. And deservedly, because horses paid dreadfully in WW1 - 10,000 were taken overseas... Read More
11:35am Fri 19 Apr, 2019
It is a solemn day of remembrance. When the sun comes up, heads are bowed, flags fly at half mast, soulful bugles sound The Last Post and volleys are fired.... Read More
11:34am Fri 19 Apr, 2019
FootGolf is teeing or kicking off at the Otumoetai Golf Club. The club will be running free events on Wednesday April 24 and Sunday April 28 from 3pm-5pm.... Read More
11:33am Fri 19 Apr, 2019
Who 'wood' have thought? Around a decade ago, members of the Tauranga City Sunrise Lions Club were brainstorming fundraising ideas, and thought selling firewood... Read More
11:32am Fri 19 Apr, 2019
'It is not a damned horse paddock. It should not be up for sale to private enterprise.” That's the no-nonsense view of retired accountant, Alan Northcote... Read More
05:28pm Fri 12 Apr, 2019
The New World Te Puke Easter Trail is coming to Te Puke on April 17 for kids big and small. Epic Te Puke's Rebecca Larsen says it's a family fun day for... Read More
05:27pm Fri 12 Apr, 2019
She was a woman sleeping rough, one of the 'hidden homeless” and according to Tauranga MP Jan Tinetti, one of the very reasons the brand new womens' shelter,... Read More
05:26pm Fri 12 Apr, 2019
They are the elderly, the infirm, the lonely and the housebound. Even the lovelorn. 'But we are making a lot of those people happy,” says George... Read More
05:25pm Fri 12 Apr, 2019
The popularity of hockey among the important younger age groups continues to grow. Places are filling fast for the first of three Tauranga Hockey holiday... Read More
05:24pm Fri 12 Apr, 2019
It is a solemn day of remembrance. When the sun comes up, heads are bowed, flags fly at half mast, soulful bugles sound The Last Post and volleys are fired.... Read More
05:24pm Fri 12 Apr, 2019
Few teenagers visit their local GP, so school nurses in the bay of Plenty are filling the void with extra support particularly when it comes to emotional distress. ... Read More
05:23pm Fri 12 Apr, 2019
Take two security safes and a fish smoker, and what do you have? A giant plastic building set for junior pupils at Brookfield School. Tauranga-based charity... Read More












