City Life

Happy as a pig in poop

It's hard to figure where the farmyard stops and the farmhouse starts. That's because the ducks and chooks, the goat and dogs, and the pigs - yes pigs -... Read More

Students contribute ideas for Omokoroa playground

Students from five Western Bay schools are putting on their thinking caps to come up with ideas for the new Omokoroa Domain playground planned by Western Bay... Read More

Joint replacement becomes social occasion

Would you like the opportunity to chat about your joint replacement? Perhaps pore over some new or old orthopaedic implants? Or simply give Walk for Wishbone a... Read More

Tauranga Synchro stars to perform at Championships

Tauranga's top synchronised swimmers are training almost full-time as the city prepares to host the North Island champ's. Tauranga's Synchronised Swimming... Read More

Artist wins Fieldays No.8 Wire Art Award

Artist Gaye Jurisich has taken out top honours in the 2019 Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award with her captivating piece labelled Snare. The Fieldays... Read More

Marriage battling against statistics

Aimee-Leigh is in the market for love, true love, meaningful enduring love. Marriage. And nothing short of it. 'Absolutely! I can't wait until I do.”... Read More

Sixty years of breeding budgies

Champion Tauranga budgie breeder Warren Kilmister is elated that his cobalt blue and green 'big boys” won some of the hotly contested sections of the... Read More

Filming seaweed foraging

Filmmakers Antoinette Wilson and Jordan Osmond have been busy making short documentaries about permaculture, food forests and sustainable living. When... Read More

Musicians come together for the Galilee Mission

A fundraising concert is taking place at St. Andrews Church in Mount Maunganui for the Galilee Mission on May 18 at 2pm. United Seafarers' Mission Port... Read More

Preston Park honours Ngati Kahu

Those who remember the 'mad bomber of Bethlehem' story 25 years ago will be pleased to know there's a happy chapter starting. In March 1990 Graham Preston... Read More

Dodgy ankle strengthens resolve

She has won a summer scholarship, a one week immersion at Rambert School - one of the world's most exclusive and prestigious dance schools in London. It... Read More

Young Guns firing under coach Hill

It is fair to say Kerry Hill knows a thing or two about sprinting. The Tauranga resident is the Relays and Sprints Coordinator at Athletics New Zealand,... Read More