Local News

YMCA plans for tennis club

Tauranga YMCA is in talks with the city council about transforming the Welcome Bay tennis club into a youth centre. Tauranga manager Calum Davie announced the YMCA's... Read More

Understanding our 'business'

'Grumpy” is 198cms of environmental indignation today. 'If it was a tip, ” he says, just a little condescendingly, 'we would have refuse transfer station... Read More

Omokoroa skate path begins

Excited children and adults alike braved the rain at the Omokoroa Sports Grounds today for the turning of the first sod on the community's own one-of-a-kind skating... Read More

Trevor the Train's chugs off

It has provided entertainment, formed memories - and sometimes caused a kerfuffle with children not wanting to leave - at the back of a Mount Maunganui video store... Read More

A splash of colour

Higor and Tara Fiuza arrived in white T-shirts and left covered top-to-toe in colour. They'd been to the free Colour Splash event - and Bay of Plenty residents... Read More

The day Summer ran away

It was the day the dog, the puppy, came home. Summer, the Cocker Spaniel, was weak, lame and hungry after a week in the bush evading searchers. It was like scenes... Read More

A man and his airport

There's a fat gardener, thin gardener and the main man. An unlikely triumvirate running 'TRG” - the code for Tauranga City Council's most successful commercial... Read More

Bay youth takes on the Beehive

'Bottles don't belong in gutters,” says Tauranga teenager Jake Hoffart. 'I spend a lot of time outdoors and I constantly see cans and bottles littering our... Read More

Model railways make tracks

By day, they're businessmen, family men, or retired men. In their spare time, they tweak, fiddle and play with their model engines. Building trains, traction engines,... Read More

Photographer needs bearded folk

Celebrated photographer Paul Alsop says his latest photographic series will marry his creative pursuits with his professional responsibilities. The 35-year-old Papmoa... Read More

Stunts go sky high

Waikanae BMX rider Ellie Chew will be joining the boys on the ramp in performing a 'smooth, flowy and cool” style of riding. Ellie will be joining the likes... Read More

Honking for the helicopter

More than 150 trucks from throughout New Zealand will roll in for the third annual Mount Truck Show at Tauranga Airport on January 23. Trucks from as far as Christchurch... Read More