City Life

Festival’s all that jazz and more

The finest jazz musicians from home and abroad will get Tauranga jumping and jiving and grooving this Easter Weekend with the return of National Jazz Festival. Today... Read More

Piddler in the pool

The research was disgusting. The admission even more disgusting. And both caused jitters, little ripples of urea, chloride, sodium and potassium - piddle in other... Read More

Challenge accepted!

Think about it. If a businessperson spends 9am-5pm every working day at their desk, that's eight hours a day deskbound. Forty hours a week, or 160 hours a month... Read More

Redemption of a serial one bagger

I am a potato peel pariah - one of Tauranga's despised 'one baggers'. I put all of my domestic rubbish - paper, plastic, tins, bottles, in fact everything that... Read More

Come ride the big red

They come hurtling round the corner in the big red fire truck and suddenly there's hope. 'It's an amazing sense of satisfaction, enormously rewarding,” says... Read More

Passengers left banging heads

Ron and Marion Chamberlain wanted compensation for what they describe as half a cruise line experience. 'Only half our cabin was useable” says Ron. So, he... Read More

More than just an owl

Charles and Janine Williams have been creating an owl - called 'ruru' in Maori - on the side of a building in Dive Crescent as part of the Tauranga Paradox Street... Read More

Deforestation on The Strand

Wife of 38 years, 'Ans', has never seen Gerry's upper lip. Never, ever. All of her married life she's had to kiss a moustache. It's a fine moustache though - of... Read More

Fillies and fashion fever!

Ladies and Gentleman - it's time to don your fancy frocks and frills, grab your wallets and gather the kids - because tomorrow Racing Tauranga is hosting a horse... Read More

Painting the town – literally

Some of the CBD's streets and walls are being given a cosmopolitan dress-up by some of the world's finest street artists. 'It's a chance for Tauranga to position... Read More

Seawall now short term patch up

'They just wanted us out, plain and simple”. And whenever Brenda Butler - former manager of the Cargo Shed arts collective on Dive Crescent - sees another... Read More

Bypass wanted – now!

While Katikati residents will be 'dancing in the street” upon hearing the New Zealand Transport Agency is adding a bypass for the town to its State Highway... Read More