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Tall yarn gathers momentum

It's one of those 'whatever happened to…' stories. In this case it's a container crane and it's missing. A model of a container crane, a substantial and... Read More

Direct, fast and efficient

From design and quote through to installation, the team at Shades Direct ensure a fast, efficient service installing a quality product. Shades Direct is owned and... Read More

A wonderful way to end the year

Pupils at ACG Tauranga will be taking a journey down the rabbit hole, having tea with the Mad Hatter and avoiding the wrath of the Red Queen this Friday, as they... Read More

Intimate messages in thread

Currently on show at the Cottleston Art Gallery in Greerton is a textile exhibition by Viv Davy. Using thread and natural fibres to convey the complexities of life,... Read More

The Real Ōpōtiki in Tauranga

Due to the success of The Real Ōpōtiki exhibition at Toi Tu Studio One in Auckland, Ōpōtiki art will continue its tour of the country with an exhibition in... Read More

Freeze – then dance for kindness

Bay residents can be part of a free worldwide event this Sunday at Mount Drury and show kindness is the common thread that unites us all - regardless of the differences... Read More

Prepping for the improbable

'The odds are better than Lotto that we're going to cop a tsunami at some stage. And it's not going to be nice.” Prophet of doom, scaremongerer? Neither,... Read More

Soaring with the parakeet

Just after noon tomorrow age and elegance will command right of way at Tauranga Airport. Pilot Keith Mitchell will nose the ZK-AWP out onto the runway, turn her... Read More

Tauranga, from Mummers to Troupers

This year marks a significant cultural achievement in Tauranga's theatrical history. It is 80 years since 16th Ave Theatre launched, and the rest, as they say,... Read More

Car story and love story

It certainly wasn't love at first sight. 'I thought she was…umm…heavy-arsed looking,” says John Redding. 'She' is a car. 'A big-bottomed girl,”... Read More

Get in the thick of it!

People of all ages can relive their childhoods and get back in the dirt in a fun-filled, mud-filled event set for this weekend. Yes - Matahui School's Mud Run is... Read More

At rest forever in a forest

'I don't want a headstone, I want a tree.” That maybe Karen Summerhays' choice for eternity but is there sufficient support in Te Puke for a natural conservation... Read More