Local News
09:31am Fri 02 Nov, 2018
The first of 3400 stone columns, which would reach from Mount Maunganui to Waihi Beach if they were laid out end-to-end, have been installed on the Baypark to... Read More
09:30am Fri 02 Nov, 2018
They're called concept gardens, and will live on well beyond the Bay of Plenty Garden and Art Festival later this month. Six local landscape designers/architects... Read More
09:29am Fri 02 Nov, 2018
With four of New Zealand's six whitebait species classified as threatened or at risk of extinction, the Department of Conservation is consulting New Zealanders... Read More
09:28am Fri 02 Nov, 2018
Kumara and chickpea curry, beef chilli, and wholemeal pasta salad with chicken, corn, peas, tomato, broccoli and cheese. Impossible meals to get into a toddler,... Read More
09:27am Fri 02 Nov, 2018
The farmer has been written out of the children's ditty 'Old McDonald had a Farm'. 'Yes, it's back to the forest,” says children's author Rebecca Larsen... Read More
09:25am Fri 02 Nov, 2018
Housing New Zealand is now a pet-friendly landlord, with tenants now allowed to keep dogs, cats, livestock animals kept as pets, birds, fish and small animals... Read More
09:25am Fri 02 Nov, 2018
Today The Weekend Sun continues its journey through Melanesia with Tauranga Labour MP Jan Tinetti and a parliamentary delegation. The delegation was looking at... Read More
09:24am Fri 02 Nov, 2018
It has all the hallmarks of Victor Kiam - the amiable American entrepreneur who liked the Remington shaver so much he went out and bought the company. When a... Read More
09:24am Fri 02 Nov, 2018
It's not all about crackles and booms, and the chances are your pet will suffer from some degree of anxiety and fear during Guy Fawkes' night. With more than... Read More
09:22am Fri 02 Nov, 2018
Dig out your trees and baubles, blow up your inflatable Santa and start untangling your strings of Christmas lights, because now is the time to plan for and enter... Read More
09:21am Fri 02 Nov, 2018
Updated plans to improve the safety of State Highway 2 between Waihi and Tauranga have been announced, with some projects going ahead immediately and others on... Read More
09:20am Fri 02 Nov, 2018
St Thomas Moore Catholic School at Mount Maunganui has become the first school in New Zealand to receive a sentinel garden. The science/biosecurity awareness... Read More