Local News
11:48am Fri 12 Oct, 2018
It's not really a subject you'd want to bring up at the dinner table, but Diane Cheyne believes it needs to be said. Tauranga resident Diane is one of around... Read More
11:47am Fri 12 Oct, 2018
A team of Mauao kaitiaki (guardians) will offer free training to help keep a damaging fungus off the Mount Maunganui landmark. Pohutukawa trees that encircle... Read More
11:46am Fri 12 Oct, 2018
A charitable trust working to support Te Puke youth may have to close its doors if it can't make its rent payment this month. The Vector Group Charitable Trust,... Read More
11:46am Fri 12 Oct, 2018
White crosses will start appearing on Tauranga waterfront from next week as a Field of Remembrance is installed to mark the lives of the region's soldiers who... Read More
11:45am Fri 12 Oct, 2018
Like most contestants, they lounged on their sofa watching My Kitchen Rules NZ and thought to themselves: 'This looks easy, sign us up!” Couple Sindy Coetzee,... Read More
11:44am Fri 12 Oct, 2018
If you've ever wanted to experience the culture and customs of Matakana Island, a fundraiser for Waipuna Hospice on October 21 will provide the perfect opportunity. The... Read More
11:43am Fri 12 Oct, 2018
They say bad luck runs in threes. That was certainly the case for Papamoa's Karen Kemp, with surgery for a hole in her heart followed by a hysterectomy in 2015... Read More
11:26am Fri 12 Oct, 2018
Thieves have targeted Alzheimers Tauranga's fundraising plant stand for the third time in a year, stealing much-needed donations. Manager Julie Sargisson says... Read More
11:44am Fri 05 Oct, 2018
Tauranga turned on a sunny day when the inaugural recipient of the University of Waikato Squash Scholarship - third year student Ben Grindrod - met up with Dudley... Read More
11:41am Fri 05 Oct, 2018
'Don't be scared, just get it done.” That's the message from Tauranga's Lucia Ekenasio, 51, who is currently undergoing chemotherapy to treat breast cancer. Lucia... Read More
11:40am Fri 05 Oct, 2018
It's a claim that would be backed by anyone who attended last year's Pasifika in the Bay festival - that upping the ante on this year's festival would be a hard... Read More
11:39am Fri 05 Oct, 2018
The colour pink is believed to be the colour of universal love of oneself and others, including our pets. Fitting, then, that Tauranga will be swathed in a sea... Read More












