Rapping, tapping and drumming on plastic buckets with their wooden drumsticks - these lads sure know how to hold a beat! Together they are known as Hittmen -... Read More

Think scavenger hunt, map reading and puzzle solving as you cycle past ancient pa sites, primitive jawless fish, and wetlands, on 300 hectares in the middle of Tauranga.... Read More

While a lot of us may have given up on the CBD, new Mainstreet Tauranga manager Genevieve Whitson is 'not somebody that gives up on things easily”. Having... Read More

It was cherished childhood holiday memories combined with a post-Covid reluctance to stay in hotels that inspired Ōmokoroa couple Andrew and Sandra Easton to buy... Read More

Tauranga Windsports Inc club co-founder Chantelle Laurent wants everyone to join her in her happy place. For the long-time windsurfing enthusiast, that's flying... Read More

Dr Riley Elliott - known as Shark Man - is keen to push on with his research of great white sharks in the Bay of Plenty region and Aotearoa this year. The Tairua... Read More

One favourite Kiwi summer pastime is staying in baches. But if you ask me, the number of actual baches in Aotearoa is dwindling as we dive deeper into a... Read More

He materialises out of the gloom on Tauranga's McLean St every morning. A shadow from the shadows. Long before the city has yawned and stretched awake.... Read More

It may be a matter of weeks since Christmas, but the volunteers at Tauranga Repair Café are expecting to be busy fixing broken toys along with the usual... Read More

Kenrick Smith's giant mandala artworks etched onto Bay of Plenty beaches are drawing the attention of national media, international stars, and are taking Instagram... Read More

It took 23 years to build the main trunk railway line. And it took an eternity for the first steam train to travel the 680km line from Wellington to Auckland... Read More

Beachgoers headed to the Bay's favourite hotspots last week, soaking up all that warm sunshine and cooling off among the coast. This January has kicked off... Read More