Two hours is all it takes to make a difference in the lives of those with disabilities, says Wendy Isaacs of the Assistance Dogs New Zealand Trust. Volunteers are... Read More

Some of them are old enough to go to war, to fight for their country. Some are old enough to vote or go to the pub. But still no whiskers. 'Our rule is clean-shaven,”... Read More

It's a tiny sketch, a simple landscape dominated by a church and spire. It's just a moment in the life of Petrus van der Velden, captured with a pencil. 'But it's... Read More

The queue stretched out the door. Thirty, 40, 50 people long. And there was all the bustle and high expectation of a Boxing Day sale. But no, these folk were queuing... Read More

Could we go up? 'Yes, I think Tauranga could go up, yeah!” High rise or high-er rise downtown Tauranga. That sort of talk is bound to unsettle the pigeons... Read More

You have to be 18 years old to beat the censorship block on YouTube. But Te Puke's Wendy Dukes claims she and her family got Kanye West and 11 others bollocky,... Read More

He thought he was doing the responsible grandfatherly thing - passing on stuff, passing on his wisdom and experience to the grandkids. But the lesson got cut dead... Read More

A piece of New Zealand aviation history has been sitting in cardboard box for more than 50 years. And for the first time, Tauranga woman Jan Hoekstra is letting... Read More

It's exactly 8716km from Tauranga to Okinawa - Japan. And the ticket cost me $1700.It wasn't the intention, but I came back with a cookbook. A fascinating one,... Read More

She's petite, sylph-like, a dainty lady. And Frank Parnwell fusses over her. He even spent $11,000 when she needed a new wardrobe. But it's been a challenging relationship,... Read More

Betty Stamp gambled and always won. Many other sad souls took the same risk at the same odds - and paid. They died grim deaths. 'No, it didn't frighten me,”... Read More

Four-hundred disenfranchised Tauranga children and teenagers have had the slate wiped clean, their shame erased, their reading rights restored. The four hundred... Read More