Five young entrepreneurs at Otumoetai College are turning their interest in Te Teo Maori into a business. The Year 12 students are taking part in the Young Enterprise... Read More

Taylor Auld from Thames has been a good scout, involved in picking up litter initiatives along the coast near his home town. Now the 18-year-old has picked up something... Read More

'If this at least saves just one person, then it'll be worthwhile.” The heartfelt wish of Wahia Walker-Poroa. She lost her sister to suicide just five months... Read More

Free as a Bird is a non-profit organisation which has rescued, rehabilitated, and rehomed more than 15,000 battery farm chickens in its two and a half years of... Read More

School bus services are being squeezed and a greater number of college students are expected to walk or cycle to school, as part of a number of recommendations... Read More

A Whakatane home school student with an ambitious project has taken out top honours in this year's Bay of Plenty Regional Science and Technology Fair. Wasted Watts,... Read More

Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology chief executive Dr Leon Fourie says the tertiary institute welcomes any additional assistance for students, following Labour's... Read More

The National Party has announced plans to provide the opportunity for every child in New Zealand to learn a second language at primary school. The election promise... Read More

Redevelopment of the Whakatane Museum and Research Centre in Boon Street is well underway. Piles for the building's new extension are already in place and major... Read More

If Ivan Alexander goes back to school next month, the bell will ring summoning him to class. But the schoolyard will be silent, deserted. There'll be no kids at... Read More

Students at Tauranga Girls' College have helped boost the coffers of the Tauranga SPCA a little more, thanks to their cupcake decorating efforts. On Tuesday the... Read More

Tauranga City Libraries will hold two seminars aimed at empowering business owners and managers as part of its Business @ the Library programme. One seminar is... Read More