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Challenge accepted!

Think about it. If a businessperson spends 9am-5pm every working day at their desk, that's eight hours a day deskbound. Forty hours a week, or 160 hours a month... Read More

Redemption of a serial one bagger

I am a potato peel pariah - one of Tauranga's despised 'one baggers'. I put all of my domestic rubbish - paper, plastic, tins, bottles, in fact everything that... Read More

Come ride the big red

They come hurtling round the corner in the big red fire truck and suddenly there's hope. 'It's an amazing sense of satisfaction, enormously rewarding,” says... Read More

Spend the surplus on the bridge

Terry 'Hori BOP' Leaming wants to see Prime Minister Bill English spend some of the recently announced government's budget surplus money on making the Maungatapu... Read More

Holder joins Hayden and Hyundai

He's only driven 10km in the car - but Tauranga's David Holder isn't letting this put him off a rare opportunity to drive as part of the Hyundai NZ Rally Team in... Read More

Bay of Plenty titles decided

Although the stockcar class required a runoff to determine the Bay of Plenty champion, it was the saloons and super saloons that provided the closest racing at... Read More

Tara’s special night with Adele

It was pandemonium. English singer-songwriter and international superstar Adele steps on stage and 45,000 people go off. Cheers, yelling, clapping, whistling, yahooing. But... Read More

Passengers left banging heads

Ron and Marion Chamberlain wanted compensation for what they describe as half a cruise line experience. 'Only half our cabin was useable” says Ron. So, he... Read More

More than just an owl

Charles and Janine Williams have been creating an owl - called 'ruru' in Maori - on the side of a building in Dive Crescent as part of the Tauranga Paradox Street... Read More

New blue card for safety

Players and spectators at local rugby games might notice referees have an extra coloured card up their sleeve. As well as the usual red and yellow cards, refs now... Read More

Deforestation on The Strand

Wife of 38 years, 'Ans', has never seen Gerry's upper lip. Never, ever. All of her married life she's had to kiss a moustache. It's a fine moustache though - of... Read More

Fillies and fashion fever!

Ladies and Gentleman - it's time to don your fancy frocks and frills, grab your wallets and gather the kids - because tomorrow Racing Tauranga is hosting a horse... Read More