The company will have spent the thick end of $50 million morphing Papamoa Plaza into a modern shopping experience, but the little old lady on a walking stick only... Read More

There was something called a boom bed. There was a survival fishing rod. There were luminescent revision sheets for the anxiously insomniac exam candidates. Inventions,... Read More

Baking is typically bright and colourful and inspires conversations over technique, texture and taste. But what if baking was moody and started conversations about... Read More

This Sunday at Omokoroa No 1 School is Animal Day, a fundraising event organised entirely by two schoolgirls. Maya Stone and Sunny Davis, both aged 11, have spent... Read More

The normally quiet and reserved drummer in the Baptist Church band responded to the would-be armed robbers in the way he thought best, at the time and under the... Read More

The seed was sewn when she was just four. With a stick of chalk. 'I was drawing on the ground outside Baycourt with all these people. I can't remember what we were... Read More

When do you start thinking about Christmas? After Labour Weekend? After Guy Fawkes? Christmas Eve? Jennifer Murray has not only been thinking about Christmas since... Read More

'We don't need this on show day,” says Straw Lye. He's talking about the unrelenting rain of the last few weeks. The organiser of tomorrow's Wheels on Mainstreet... Read More

One lane or two lanes? It's an issue that's divided Te Puke cleaner than the tree-dotted island that runs down the middle of the town's main street. And two locals... Read More

Surf lifesaving patrols start this Labour Weekend - but can be forgiven for thinking the lifesavers have taken a well-deserved break during winter. Not so, says... Read More

'Nats ignore the homeless'. That might be the message waved under the nose of Tauranga MP Simon Bridges next week. Or 'rental price hikes must stop'. 'A protest... Read More

Buckle in Sunners, because Baypark Family Speedway has a great season ahead for you. Baypark event promoter Bernie Gillon says the season kicks off this Labour... Read More