Local News

Having fun and getting kids clean

Getting children to wash their hands can be a mission, as every parent knows, but Sophie Best, Millie Hubbard and five other entrepreneurs have found a way to make... Read More

Local history by a local

Peg Cummins is a writer. And she's become a writer fairly fast. Originally a primary school teacher, Peg had been teaching for about 40 years and retired when she... Read More

When ‘No’ actually means ‘No’

Real estate agents in Otumoetai, Bellevue and Matua - listen up! Ross Stewart has a beef with you. And he knows he's not alone. 'Why do you think you have a God-given... Read More

Wear a wig

On January 21 Tauranga's Charmaine Garner and Dion Mair were in a position no parents ever want to be in. Their five-year-old son Jaxon Mair was in Starship children's... Read More

Sacred Journey wins challenge

Tauranga Girls' College danced their way into first place at Stage Challenge's first night of entertainment at Baycourt Community and Art Centre's Addison Theatre... Read More

Helping out 12,000km from home

Stephanie Harper comes from the beautiful seaside suburb of Mount Maunganui, where she's used to ending the day on a full tummy and easy access to clean tap water... Read More

A rib eye for the dog please?

A man walks into a bar. No, it's not a joke. He orders a steak, a rib eye. Cooked medium. Hold the vegetables, hold the mushrooms and hold the jus too. Just the... Read More

Beep, beep, beep, BEEEEP!

There's a battered old silver service teaspoon circa 1840-1860. There's an 1836 silver shilling and a military uniform button from the 68th Durham Light Infantry... Read More

Can tabs put to good use

What purpose could hundreds of tiny can tabs possibly serve once they've done their job and opened your soda or tin of tuna? Well, Pinterest is rife with nifty... Read More

To serve coffee – and goodness

When The Daily Café opens next month people will walk in to the usual hums, clicks and spurts reverberating from a coffee machine. But this will be no usual... Read More

Sixty-five days of niceness

Don't be surprised. Because somewhere, sometime soon, when you least expect it, someone will step up and say: 'Hi, we are the cystic sisters and this one's on us”. It... Read More

Industry backs the publican

It seemed like a petty squabble, a storm in a bucket of beer-battered chips. For one man it blew into something 'that weighed heavily on his heart”. For another,... Read More