Council
11:09am Fri 23 Jun, 2017
Kevin Steedman's had a gutsful - he's quitting his job, packing up his nine metre motor home and leaving town. 'I am leaving because I have to - they have made... Read More
04:34pm Fri 09 Jun, 2017
Were the lights on in the camper van? Or were they turned off? Seems a petty point but there's an important distinction for Shane Palliser and the Tauranga City... Read More
01:19pm Fri 02 Jun, 2017
Some of Tauranga's bigwigs will be baring their legs in the middle of winter this year and it's all for a good cause. Local politicians are trading in their suit... Read More
10:20am Fri 26 May, 2017
It's about taking a step in someone else's shoes. And in the case of Red Cross' Maree Boyes and Tauranga mayor Greg Brownless, they're taking 10,000 steps a day... Read More
11:25am Fri 05 May, 2017
He's been with the project from the start - since it was a pencil sketch on a piece of paper at Tauranga City Council - now he's going to make a splash at the official... Read More
09:36am Fri 07 Apr, 2017
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
09:32am Fri 07 Apr, 2017
Terry 'Hori BOP' Leaming wants to see Prime Minister Bill English spend some of the recently announced government's budget surplus money on making the Maungatapu... Read More
10:00am Fri 24 Mar, 2017
'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
01:08pm Fri 17 Mar, 2017
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
11:41am Fri 24 Feb, 2017
It was a cruel catalyst for change. Just one dark moment in early-January. It didn't make the newspapers or the TV, and no-one saw it coming. A 20-year-old committed... Read More
08:46am Fri 20 Jan, 2017
It's the difference between a no-nonsense, gun-toting California Highway patrolman and our own unarmed, considered and popular top traffic cop Tauranga Police's... Read More
09:04am Fri 23 Dec, 2016
When Mayor Greg Brownless first arrived in Tauranga in 1986, he didn't know many people. So, because he'd always had an interest in the stage, he thought he'd pop... Read More