The train driver calls it the 'long loud” - a sustained and desperate blast of the locomotive horn. It's not just that perfunctory honk indicating the train... Read More

Don't kill the turtle! Spare the turtle, bring the turtle home. It's loved and missed in Katikati, some half-an-hour and 36 kilometres up State Highway 2 from... Read More

Georgia Bavington's goal to swim the Cook Strait could be achieved earlier than planned. Currently fifth on the list of potentials, the 15-year-old could get... Read More

He's a young creative and a budding entrepreneur. He's also self-published and soon to be on the shelves. Did we mention that he's also nine-years-old? Young... Read More

In some ways, Jack Miller is the modern-day Pied Piper of Hamelin, but a little more noble and a lot more local. Welcome Bay, in fact. The original rat-catcher... Read More

Like slow falling dominoes, Rowan Boyle's family have felt the continuous effects of Huntington's disease their whole lives. Rowan is the only one of her two... Read More

There have been reported sightings and doubters, but now there's the indisputable evidence. The Weekend Sun has the pictures of the slippery slider - trachemys... Read More

Ralph Starck is in counting mode. '478, 479, 480.” Then the phone rang, so Ralph gave up counting the forest of bromeliads that surround his Papamoa home. 'I... Read More

You will hear it before you see it, like a pesky little fly zooming in and out of the scenery. Lightweight and fast, this flying machine can do extraordinary... Read More

They signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 that formally ended World War One. And 100 years ago, they also rang a school bell for the first time at number 659,... Read More

They're a dynamic young double act, and their weekly gigs are pulling increasing numbers of punters to the citadel on Cameron Road. The citadel is the Salvation... Read More

Thousands of strands of hair were once chopped off and disposed of, destined to spend their last days in a bottomless landfill. Now, a Tauranga hair salon has... Read More