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Posted at 4:20pm Friday 24th May, 2013 | By Andrew Campbell andrew@thesun.co.nz
 An offer to remove one of the barking dogs from a house in Windsor Road is being considered by Tauranga City Council hearings committee.
Council animal control staff are seeking the removal of three dogs owned by two people living at the address, in what they say is an unusual move.
Residents of a Windsor Road property have offered to give up one of...
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Posted at 4:12pm Friday 24th May, 2013 | By Andrew Campbell andrew@thesun.co.nz
 A French yacht at the centre of a search and rescue drama north of New Zealand this week is now berthed in Tauranga.
The Saint Amour was sailing from Whangarei to Fiji when it was caught in a storm about halfway and lost its steering on May 14.
Saint Amour berthed at Tauranga Bridge Marina today.
The solo French sailor activated the yacht’s Epirb...
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Posted at 3:35pm Friday 24th May, 2013
 A fleeting ridge of high pressure will bring a mostly dry start to the weekend, but it’s short lived as rain is expected to move over the country.
A low from the North Tasman Sea and an active front from the Southern Ocean are expected to bring rain and eventually much colder conditions.
Frost and snow are on the cards for New Zealand next week.
MetService...
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Posted at 2:40pm Friday 24th May, 2013
 A Rotorua nursery woman is the recipient of the top award given by Rural Women NZ.
Diane Coleman has won the RWNZ Enterprising Rural Women Award 2013 announced in Christchurch on Thursday night.
RWNZ Enterprising Rural Women Award 2013 (centre) recipient with RWNZ National President Liz Evans and Agrisea general manager Jill Bradley.
Based at Ngongotaha,...
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Posted at 2:34pm Friday 24th May, 2013 | By Corrie Taylor corrie@thesun.co.nz
 Time is running out for Tauranga beauties to enter the inaugural Miss Tauranga and Miss Teen Beauty Pageant next month.
Applications for the pageant on June 8 close this Sunday at 5pm and girls between the ages of 13-25-years-old are encouraged to take part.
Aimee-Jo Coupe, 19, is competing in next month’s Miss Tauranga event.
The pageant, with...
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Posted at 12:55pm Friday 24th May, 2013
 Tauranga City Council staff are today evaluating offers made on the former Placemakers site after the deadline closed overnight.
The deadline for offers to purchase the 7640m2 Marsh Street site, worth more than $3million, closed at 5pm on Thursday.
Council property manager Anthony Averill told SunLive this morning he did not have a final count on how...
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Posted at 12:05pm Friday 24th May, 2013 | By Luke Balvert luke@thesun.co.nz
 Bayfair residents are demanding Tauranga City Council take action to upgrade drainage systems to stop the flash flooding plaguing the neighbourhood for the last eight years.
Carysfort Street resident Steve Robinson says council has been sidestepping flood and drainage remedies since the May 2005 floods, instead providing small “stop gaps”...
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Posted at 11:04am Friday 24th May, 2013 | By Letitia Atkinson letitia@thesun.co.nz
 A magnitude 7.5 earthquake off the cost of Tonga and Fiji this morning generated three false earthquake alerts in New Zealand.
The 7.5 quake hit around 5.19am New Zealand time and had a focal depth of 170km.
A 7.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Tonga today. Photo: GeoNet.
The US Geological Survey says it was situated 287km southwest of Nuku’alofa,...
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Posted at 10:50am Friday 24th May, 2013 | By Elaine Fisher elaine@thesun.co.nz
 Fifteen post-harvest companies are coming out in strong support of Zespri in the face of what the group says is a public campaign that could damage the country’s kiwifruit industry.
In a letter to Ministry for Primary Industries Nathan Guy and a number of MPs, the operators say they are “deeply concerned that what appears to us is a public...
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Posted at 10:12am Friday 24th May, 2013
 Duck shooters took home about 4300 fewer birds on opening weekend this year, a reduced bag that justifies the shortened season, says Eastern Region Fish and Game Manager Rob Pitkethly.
An estimated 11,500 mallard and grey ducks were shot in the Eastern Region on opening day this duck shooting season, a drop from last year’s estimated opening weekend...
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