City Life

Arts Festival puts poetry in motion

Tauranga Arts Festival has added 'Home-made Poetry' to its web-based 'arts at home' line-up with locals or past guests of the festival being filmed reading work... Read More

Topping the charts with a different beat

He grew up here and is a product of the Tauranga music scene. Joel Shadbolt and L.A.B is also the first band to hit the top of the Kiwi charts since Lorde's... Read More

It‘s news without the paper

With the highly publicised closure of Bauer Media last week, the role media plays in shaping our society, keeping us informed and entertained, has been thrown... Read More

Migrants speak through words and art

Local writer Nina Payne is one of 25 migrants who have contributed to the book, Mixed: Creative Writing by Newcomers to Our Shores. An author with two previously... Read More

Book worms turn to crime in lock-down

Mystery, crime and thrillers are leading the way when it comes to reading habits over the past few weeks. Online borrowers are particularly enjoying contemporary... Read More

These fat brothers are thinking big

Proudly and defiantly, unhealthy fast food - everything fat, nothing green, nothing vegetarian, nothing vegan. That was the business model that won the heart, and... Read More

Green space gobbles house

The Tauranga City Council is planning to remove a tidy, three-bedroom house in Pyes Pa to provide a second access to the park and playground behind it. The council... Read More

The big OE just got smaller

Tauranga woman Kelly Rice provides a perspective on being far from home during an international crisis. OPINION: We left the mighty shores of New Zealand on... Read More

Partial eclipse of The Sun

The Weekend Sun will not be printed for the next four weeks. Management advises that an extensive, free news service will continue to be provided online... Read More

Essential businesses to stay open

New Zealand is in lockdown but Bay of Plenty people can still connect through Sun Media's news website: www.sunlive.co.nz and can now find essential services... Read More

Help your neighbours

People are being urged to build support networks in their community to ensure the needs of vulnerable people are being met. Age Concern general manager... Read More

Rekindling the love

It's time to start reading our way out of a crisis. Books a Plenty shut its doors on Wednesday but already had a number of loyal customers in isolation... Read More