Council

Offering a choice

Nevermind about a stadium, what about the roads? Spending less on council palaces and more on the city If Tauranga City councillor Steve Morris wins the mayoralty... Read More

City council now online

Council Direct is exactly as it sounds - a direct link from from Tauranga City Council to SunLive. The newest tab on SunLive is part of an agreement with the council... Read More

Before you do something silly…

Genteel by reputation but it's getting meaner, more menacing out there on the streets of Tauranga. Ask the parking officers. They see it and experience it most... Read More

Shorts4Todd

The Bay never seems to be so cold that you can't put your boardies on. For Bay of Plenty MP Todd Muller that's certainly the case. Todd will be wearing his shorts... Read More

Challenge for councils not working

Tauranga and the Western Bay's Joint Governance Committee's backdown last month over the two councils' waste minimisation programme is symptomatic of a deeper malaise,... Read More

Long awaited road link

Construction has begun on a long awaited Grenada St connection, joining the Mount Maunganui end with the Papamoa end and creating a second through-road. Opening... Read More

Moa Park's new barbecue

Mount Maunganui Lions Club is sizzling up a storm this lunch time. They are unveiling the new barbecue they have donated to Moa Park. Club secretary George Pocock... Read More

Labour preparing to make a charge

They were hunkered down behind locked doors in the Arataki Community Centre and plotting. 'It starts right here,” says Phil Twyford, senior Labour politician,... Read More

Event funds up for grabs

Tauranga City Council's next round of community events funding is open for applications, which encourages those oprgnaising events that connect the community, celebrate... Read More

Gearing up for round two

The country's had its say, $26 million has been spent and the alternative flag has been committed to the shredder without so much as a flutter. But that doesn't... Read More

A feature of the nightscape

It's an old steel truss bridge - functional rather than fussy. And all day it rumbles to the tune of the East Coast's main trunkline container traffic. Into the... Read More

Online voting is the future

This October we all get to have our say on who runs our city via the local body elections - but the process of voting will not be dragged into the 21st Century... Read More