Education

Old boy shows it can be done

When it comes to setting goals during your high school years, rowing across the Atlantic Ocean and exploring some of the country's most treacherous terrain are far... Read More

Mt College wins national stage award

Mount Maunganui College has scooped two Stage Challenge 2015 National Awards of Excellence for its soundtrack and backstage crew. The college's depiction of the... Read More

Vocational training opportunity

Joining forces with Elite Training and Page Macrae Engineering, Pacific Coast Technical Institute is opening a new wing of their training centre dedicated to industry... Read More

Six stars rising this September

It's nearing crunch time for the six talented young musicians competing in the Bay of Plenty Symphonia's Rising Stars 2015 competition. Each finalist, accompanied... Read More

From trash to ‘fash’

As the saying goes, ‘one man's trash is another man's treasure'. And that's exactly the case at Mount Maunganui Intermediate as children turn plastic bags,... Read More

Hairy bronzes finally unveiled

Lazarus, the real-life Hercules Morse (as big as a horse), greeted his bronzed-self with a sniff when Dame Lynley Dodd's Hairy Maclary character sculptures were... Read More

New gallery director welcomed

The Tauranga Art Gallery's new director, Karl Chitham, has been officially welcomed into the position during a formal ceremony held on Monday. Karl was welcomed... Read More

Support for drug scam victims

Tauranga lawyer Craig Tuck is adding his voice to an international group of lawyers warning people about the dangers of internet romance, associated international... Read More

Leaky schools case goes to trial

Carter Holt Harvey's appeal against having to appear in court over the leaky schools case has failed in the Court of Appeal, which has ruled the arguments put forward... Read More

Innovations on display

Keen creators living in the Bay of Plenty have for the past few months been busily planning, designing and building innovations in the hope of taking home the top... Read More

Te Wiki o te Reo Maori

This week is Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori, or Maori Language Week in the other official language of Aotearoa - New Zealand. It is the 40th Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori this... Read More

Digging into our past

It could be the very same cannon that lobbed 6lb shells across what's now Cameron Road into the garrisons of Ngai Te Rangi at Pukehinahina 150 years ago. It's a... Read More