As a mum of three healthy kids, I count my blessings every day. I was stoked to hear that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her partner Clarke Gayford are having... Read More

It is both a deeply sad time and a profoundly satisfying time of year for Paul Roozendaal. For around two-and-a-half hours, Paul can be at sea and alone with his... Read More

There are mysteries, action and adventures, and science fiction. Over on another table there's romance, horror, self-help, satire and drama. Books of many and varied... Read More

'There was a very real danger we were going nowhere,” says Martin Knudsen. There was an even greater danger that their four wheel drive would be seized and... Read More

A Katikati resident has expressed concern about the use of the chemical glyphosate to rid the Yeoman Walkway of weeds, given its close proximity to the Uretara... Read More

It was half an idea that didn't quite take off - the proposed water taxi to Tauranga from the Omokoroa Peninsula. The idea was the brainchild of local ferryman... Read More

A Gate Pa woman has a solution to unwanted and unfortunate given names. 'Maybe it would be better if a name given at birth was just a temporary thing,” says... Read More

The small towns and settlements of New Zealand are the backbone of our country and those in the Western Bay of Plenty are no exception. Te Puke is the kiwifruit... Read More

Three months, three-to-six days a week, and up to five hours a day - that's how long the cast and crew of The Wizard of Oz (Young Performers' Edition) have been... Read More

She didn't know it at the time, but there were two special people at Wellington's St James Theatre for the New Zealand School of Dance's 50th anniversary graduation... Read More

One of the world's leading reggae music festivals and the nation's favourite festival experience, One Love, returns to Tauranga this summer. Festival promoter... Read More

Katikati Community Board chair Jenny Hobbs says the community doesn't want the Katikati bypass to get 'tangled up” in a debate about roading needs for the... Read More