A structure of wooden planks, used in the 1900s to gather and unleash water to 'drive' kauri logs down Western Bay of Plenty hills to sawmills, is juxtaposed... Read More

Rosalie Crawford was being flippant, but in jokes can lie truth. Rosalie mused that if Katherine Mansfield had schooled at the tiny kauri schoolhouse rotting... Read More

She hasn't seen it all, but she has seen a lot of it. Kate Cleave, Constable Kate Cleave, fresh out of police college and just two days on the cold, mean streets... Read More

Technology is a huge part of modern education but the humble book still has its place. Brookfield School deputy principal Carol Burborough knows a thing or two... Read More

The name's Bond - Jo Bond - and she has a licence to thrill. You need that special touch when it comes to finding the right people for the biennial Tauranga... Read More

Puran Singh hasn't had a haircut for 48 years - in fact he's never had a haircut. 'Never, never, never in my life” insists this elder and president... Read More

Popular culture paints angels as female, the Bible as blokes. Either or, Nina Le Lievre, the new archangel or CEO of Enterprise Angels, the group that connects... Read More

Two Tauranga MPs are trading shots over the building of a new secondary school at Omokoroa. Bay of Plenty MP Todd Muller started the firefight by 'slamming... Read More

'Crazy!” says Peter Kageyama gazing over Tauranga's waterfront carpark. 'Crazy, just crazy.” Perhaps the most valuable piece of land in Tauranga's... Read More

A network of 700 automated kill traps is standing guard over a unique population of native frogs near Te Puke, part of a joint effort to make 'leaps' in their... Read More

One of New Zealand's highest hopes to follow Lydia Ko into the women's professional golfing ranks is progressing well in the USA. Tauranga's Alanna Campbell... Read More

At a time when New Zealand heroes exclusively wore rugby boots, Tauranga's Peter Otway was in awe of men of snow and ice, men of the Antarctic - adventurers... Read More