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Striving for the best

Katrina Te Hana Phillis (Hana) felt nervous at the start of her Certificate in Business Administration (Level 4) at Waiariki. A beneficiary since 2005, Hana had... Read More

Yellowfin tuna fill EBOP water

Yellowfin tuna is back in the Eastern Bay of Plenty with a number of the game fish being spotted in the region in recent weeks. Anglers throughout the North Island... Read More

Diesel spill investigated

The regional council is investigating complaints that a boat anchored in Anzac Bay pumped contaminated bilge water among swimmers. The boat, Lola May from Kaiapoi... Read More

VIDEO: Plane wreckage retrieval

An operation to remove the wreckage of a crashed skydiving plane from Lake Taupo is underway this afternoon. As our exclusive footage shows, salvage divers, a helicopter... Read More

Tauranga woman to turn 107

The year was 1908. It was historically significant for women - and Linda Hopkins. New York City banned women from smoking in public, Mother's Day was celebrated... Read More

Paralysed penguin makes progress

He was found bedraggled and bewildered. He couldn't stand and his flippers weren't flipping. He's the smallest of his kind and the big waves seemed to get the better... Read More

Bay seek Sevens redemption

As far as dress rehearsals go, this weekend's Bay Engineers Provincial Sevens tournament couldn't get any bigger for the respective Bay of Plenty sides, desperately... Read More

Wet weather to clear

The rain seen in the Bay of Plenty overnight and this morning is expected to clear today. The MetService is forecasting cloud to clear this morning and for sea breezes... Read More

Water use up over holiday period

The Christmas-New Year period saw Coromandel's water consumption increase compared to last year in popular holiday spots on the Peninsula. People in Whangamata consumed... Read More

'A celebration of life'

A 'celebration of life” lies at the heart of Creative Tauranga's first exhibition of 2015, which opens to the public today. ‘The Celebration' is an... Read More

30-hour wait for help

A hunter spent 30 hours on his own after he seriously injured his leg in the Urewera National Park. The Rotorua-based BayTrust Rescue Helicopter was dispatched to... Read More

World class paddlers prepare

The chance to be crowned the inaugural King and Queen of Mauao is attracting some of the world's top stand-up paddle boarders, who are currently in New Zealand getting... Read More