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09:00am Fri 10 Jun, 2016
He's a kind of unofficial envoy for Kiwi Regional Airlines, an ambassador at large. 'It's the little Kiwi airline that you can relate to, that you can trust,”... Read More
11:06am Thu 09 Jun, 2016
International students from Tauranga Girls' College dispersed throughout the community on Tuesday to lend a helping hand. The school held its annual work day, when... Read More
03:30pm Fri 03 Jun, 2016
The White Rabbit was late for a very important date, but organisers of the Mad Hatters' What's Under Your Hat event are making sure Tauranga women aren't late for... Read More
02:40pm Fri 03 Jun, 2016
She was the iconic no-nonsense matriarchal westie Cheryl West in TV3's 'Outrageous Fortune'. Both a saint and a sinner, said the blurbs. And with the same mastery... Read More
01:30pm Fri 03 Jun, 2016
Twelve-year-old Davis Herniman from Mount Maunganui presents as a normal and very healthy looking boy. But what most people wouldn't know from meeting him is he... Read More
11:21am Fri 03 Jun, 2016
ACG Tauranga pupils will mark World Environment Day this week, as the school continues its ongoing commitment to actively reducing its environmental footprint. World... Read More
10:30am Fri 03 Jun, 2016
It's filling empty bellies, teaching empathy - and it's growing good young men. 'It also says something about kids these days,” says Nicki Goodwin, co-ordinator... Read More
09:30am Fri 03 Jun, 2016
A boy and a dream, a fairly common story. A boy who grew up wanting to be a singer; who wanted to be like stars on 'American Idol' and 'The X Factor'. But Brent... Read More
01:54pm Mon 30 May, 2016
A boy with no voice, and his dream is to be a singer. Te Puke local Brent Eyskens lost his voice to a virus when he was young, and now the 19-year-old has a song... Read More
11:00am Fri 27 May, 2016
Otamarakau School has reached 100 years of educating its community - and with celebrations planned, local historian Cherie Mortensen has delved into the century-long... Read More
09:00am Fri 27 May, 2016
What's in a name? Quite a lot it would seem, especially for Avenues Kindergarten. The kindergarten has had three names since the early 1960s. The kindergarten on... Read More
08:00am Fri 27 May, 2016
More than 600 billion bits of Lego have been produced by the Danish carpenter and toy-maker Ole Kirk Christiansen in the last 67 years. A nanoscopic proportion... Read More