For 15 years Tauranga's newest solicitor woke up every morning and asked himself one simple question: 'Am I following my true passion?” And for 15 working... Read More

Beauty salons, barbershops, and butchers - there are many small businesses in Tauranga. Tauranga Chamber of Commerce wants to give small business owners a face,... Read More

Trinity has landed on her feet. Just three feet because that's all she's got. But Trinity is still blessed. Because there she is 1.9kg of three-legged dog - about... Read More

One caped crusader will be among the more than 100 mountain bikers expected to start the Kiwi Crusade in Tauranga next week, from February 28, when the seven-day... Read More

Harry Scott was the chief flying instructor at Tauranga Aero Club for 25 years and left the club with a reputation among pilots that survives to this day. The Tauranga... Read More

She arrived a couple of weeks ago - Nevaeh Joyce Jayde Puawai Short. Nevaeh is heaven spelt backwards, Joyce after Dad Dave's grandmother, Jayde is a feminisation... Read More

He could simply be a statistic - one of three tragic numbers: eight, 29 or 50. Or all three. Twenty-nine being the number of fatal road crashes so far this year,... Read More

It was what the free runners call a 'bail and slam”. It means as it sounds - a failure, a painful failure where an airborne body collides with an immoveable... Read More

'Galagan Polaris”, that's his kennel name, be warned - you're a marked man. That's because the imposing pedigree Maremma Sheepdog barked at the Western Bay... Read More

When Neville Corson learned to play the drums in Boy Scouts, World War II had just finished. Seven decades later, his 15-year-old grandson was asked to start learning... Read More

Guy Hobson came as a package deal. Him and 65 boxes of books. That's damn near 3000 books. All the way from Leicestershire via Auckland to Tauranga. 'There's 30... Read More

They eyeballed each other from 10 paces. They sensed a connection but were unsure. After all it's been five years; a whole five years. 'She's eyeing him differently,”... Read More