City Life

Time capsule discovery takes town back to 1987

A window into life in Katikati back in 1987 has been opened with the discovery of a time capsule in the town's old library building on the main street. Builders... Read More

Data shows more Kiwis struggling to pay bills

New data reveal more people are in hardship and struggling to pay bills - a 14% increase from a year ago - with some 15,000 people facing difficulties. Credit... Read More

Locals fear it will take a death to get road fixed

Locals on a busy Tauranga street fear someone will die before anything substantial is done to improve safety on a bend notorious for crashes. Three times... Read More

Land earmarked for bypass now set for development

A piece of land on the eastern side of Rotorua originally earmarked for a bypass is now seeing some action after sitting in limbo for several decades. Rotorua... Read More

Iconic Kiwi lolly comes to an end

Iconic Kiwi lolly the Jaffa has been discontinued and will disappear from shop shelves for good. Sweetmaker RJ's, who manufacture the orange chocolate... Read More

Mount Maunganui parking issues back on the agenda

Parking in Mount Maunganui North is back on Tauranga City Council's agenda. It comes more than a year after the council put the brakes on controversial plans... Read More

Customs seizes 150kg of cocaine bricks in Tauranga

Cocaine worth an estimated $58.2 million has been found at the Port of Tauranga in a shipping container from Jamaica. Customs officers based at the port seized... Read More

Diving company finds car, brings closure to family

The owners of a dive company that discovered a car submerged in the Waikato River with a dead body in it have provided insight into the procedural steps... Read More

Takitimu House leader steps down after 11 years

For 11 years, Annamarie Angus has worked at the coalface of homelessness in Tauranga, supporting men to turn their lives around. She was there when the... Read More

Police investigate two Tauranga ram-raids

Police are investigating two ram raids in Tauranga overnight reportedly involving the same vehicle. A spokeswoman said police received a report of a burglary... Read More

New data in gender-based violence research

Maternal suicide, perinatal deaths and non-family homicides have all been included in a new report to try and get a full picture of violence against women and... Read More

80,000 books to schools, rest homes, offenders

A mobile Rotorua library service has delivered more than 80,000 books to housebound residents, schoolchildren and youth offenders over the past five years. Rotorua... Read More