Tauranga barber Shanon Ratahi opened Avenue Barbers & Tattoo to rangatahi this week, hosting an event that blends street art, barbering skills, and community... Read More

After months of intensive work involving 35 dump trucks, 10 bulldozers and 20 excavators shifting millions of litres of soil, the Takitimu North Link project... Read More

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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