08:00pm Fri 19 Apr, 2024
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has confirmed Tauranga City Council will return to fully elected governance in July despite requests for continued central... Read More
06:00pm Fri 19 Apr, 2024
Two-time Olympic gold medallist and five-time world rowing champion Mahé Drysdale is considering joining the race for Tauranga City Council. The legendary... Read More
05:00pm Fri 19 Apr, 2024
With many motorists expecting to take an extra day and have another long weekend to encompass Anzac Day and the school holidays, Waikato and Bay of Plenty roads... Read More
11:12am Fri 19 Apr, 2024
Emergency services are working to locate a person following a crash involving a train and quad bike in the Bay of Plenty. A KiwiRail spokesperson says a vehicle... Read More
10:10am Fri 19 Apr, 2024
A 77-year-old Tauranga woman whose council property valuation has plummeted by $90,000 says she feels 'stuck” because selling her home will not raise enough... Read More
09:49am Fri 19 Apr, 2024
Traffic is being diverted after a crash on State Highway 2. A single-vehicle crash occured on State Highway 2 near Pongakawa School Road at 6.55am, says a... Read More
08:30am Fri 19 Apr, 2024
Four Katikati College students are standing beneath a road sign at a rural crossroads south of town. It's balmy, autumnal; the clouds of war that once hovered... Read More
08:00am Fri 19 Apr, 2024
Who was Jessie? Acquaintance? Confidante? Love interest? No-one knows - nearly eighty years after a WW2 soldier and the mononymous ‘Jessie' exchanged... Read More
06:30am Fri 19 Apr, 2024
One Tauranga hospitality worker reportedly got a black eye after a customer threw a large ceramic mug at her face. This is just among some of the assaults... Read More
08:00pm Thu 18 Apr, 2024
An Air New Zealand passenger suffered a badly broken leg just 30 minutes into a seven-hour international flight after the plane hit turbulence when he was returning... Read More
06:20pm Thu 18 Apr, 2024
Hato Hone St John ambulance officers are in attending a crash on Pyes Pa Road. The incident was a single-vehicle collision on Pyes Pa Road at 5:35. The... Read More
06:00pm Thu 18 Apr, 2024
An infant whale has been found dead on a Bay of Plenty beach. Department of Conservation operations manager for Whakatāne, David Beattie, says staff and... Read More