City Life

Small changes for huge impact

The numbers are staggering. Bay of Plenty post-harvest operator Trevelyan's saved more than 300 tonnes of waste from landfill last year. That's the equivalent... Read More

Angry driver knocks down cyclist

Local cyclist Gerard Eagar was knocked off his bike on Queen's Birthday Weekend and he is urging the driver who hit him to use their 'rage” energy to... Read More

The people project

Three years ago Amie Marchant wouldn't say 'boo' to a mouse. Now she is performing in school productions, giving speeches to hundreds of people... Read More

Crime worse, significant and worrying

Caseloads at Tauranga's District Court are at record highs. 'The most ever,” says an in-house Ministry of Justice factsheet slipped to The Weekend Sun. 'You... Read More

Les travels the road alone

The Tauranga Mayoral candidate is a broken-hearted man. Because when Les Wallen and his wife Dell decided to 'walk the road together and see what happened”,... Read More

Kathy grumps when heavens dump

Kathy Fathers is 'all wound up” and calling in a ten-year-old promise she says was made to her by the Tauranga City Council. 'It's not too early,”... Read More

Sun shines on ‘Dark n’ Stormy’

'Dark n' Stormy' - sounds like a clichéd opening gambit to a melodrama, or perhaps the TV weather gurus warning of a low pressure system menacing the... Read More

100 years and 1000 lights

When most of us are rugging up, hunkering down and cranking up the electric blanket, Tauranga's Waldorf School in Welcome Bay Road is actually welcoming winter... Read More

Raising the hemline

Waipuna Hospice is challenging people to brave the cold and bare their legs. Individuals, groups, schools and businesses can do the Shorts4Hospice fundraiser... Read More

Seniors think big

They have a dream - a mega Centre for Ageing Well in Tauranga. Age Concern Tauranga has a growing constituency and it wants those people to be well looked... Read More

Drugs sold outside Mayor’s window

Beggars demanding sex acts from an innocent woman in the Tauranga CBD. Passersby being followed to their cars and harassed, people being yelled at and other... Read More

Cruising free as the breeze

He's done it a million excruciating times since Sunday November 19 - reliving the Taupo fire truck accident that robbed him of the use of his legs, left him... Read More