City Life
08:46am Fri 06 Oct, 2017
Auckland gave it a resounding no. So did Hamilton and now Tauranga is mulling over one of the more divisive issues of the time. It's Easter Sunday trading - should... Read More
12:27pm Fri 29 Sep, 2017
The Waipuna Hospice shop won Greerton Village's Cherry Blossom Best Dressed Window competition. The prize is a $750 marketing package with The Weekend Sun newspaper... Read More
12:26pm Fri 29 Sep, 2017
Visitors to Te Puna Quarry Park will soon be stepping through a kuwaha, or carved gateway, created by local carver Morris Wharekawa. The Te Puna Quarry Park Society... Read More
12:21pm Fri 29 Sep, 2017
The government's priority of better education outcomes for Maori is one at the forefront of teaching and learning at Te Puke High School. So much so that the school... Read More
12:13pm Fri 29 Sep, 2017
It's an adventure story, a marching story and a love story. It all started in Belfast 65 years ago when an enterprising young Northern Irishman called Allan Rodgers... Read More
12:12pm Fri 29 Sep, 2017
Hearing Support Bay of Plenty has a mystery on its hands. A former Hearing Association Tauranga (as it used to be called) committee member has turned up an old... Read More
12:06pm Fri 29 Sep, 2017
As the surviving political parties negotiate with Winston Peters over forming a government, Tauranga mayor Greg Brownless is hoping at least one of New Zealand... Read More
11:58am Fri 29 Sep, 2017
'No person shall sleep or otherwise occupy a footpath or road in the city centres….during the hours of darkness…' Nelson's hardline stance with its... Read More
11:54am Fri 29 Sep, 2017
It's time to get loud today, September 29, to help change the lives of New Zealand's deaf and hearing impaired children as part of Loud Shirt Day. Loud Shirt Day... Read More
11:51am Fri 29 Sep, 2017
He reckons if it's got four wheels you can stick a V8 engine in it. 'That's why my next project is to put a V8 in a mobility scooter and drive that around the shops,”... Read More
04:48pm Fri 22 Sep, 2017
A colourful reminder about this month's motorcycle awareness campaign arrived unexpectedly in the newsroom last week. The yellow motorcycle helmet was paid for... Read More
04:47pm Fri 22 Sep, 2017
A class of Pyes Pa School pupils is fundraising in a unique way by putting the kids' own artwork under the hammer. Room 7 teacher Brendon Oats says the plan is... Read More