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LIVE: First council meeting for 2019

Tauranga City Council's first meeting of the year gets underway this morning at 9am. The Community and Culture Committee will be discussing funding to the women's... Read More

Valentine’s Day, Qwerty and the weather

In today's weather forecast we are expecting a fine day apart from morning and evening cloud. There'll also be light winds, with afternoon northerlies. It's... Read More

Residents not backing down over Mount urban space

Disgruntled retailers and resident are coming together in an effort to ‘Green Up The Phoenix Carpark'. About 60 residents and retailers from Mount Maunganui... Read More

Morning sunrise a precursor to a scorcher Thursday

A 'surprising” amount of people showed up on Mount Main Beach this morning to snap the sunrise. SunLive photographer Cameron Avery was among them and captured... Read More

King talks mental health to kiwifruit industry

Two-hundred people from the Bay of Plenty's kiwifruit industry yesterday heard Mike King share his mental health challenges as well as ways to deal with improving... Read More

Major polytech merger including Toi Ohomai

Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology is just one of the 16 New Zealand Industry Training Providers that will merge into a single entity under a massive overhaul... Read More

BOP dairy farmers feeling the bite of drought

Bay of Plenty dairy farmers are hurting as the drought begins to bite. But Federated Farmers says none of them are seeking assistance just yet. Bay of Plenty... Read More

Basketball involvement surges in secondary schools

Basketball has overtaken rugby as the second-highest participated secondary school sport in New Zealand behind netball. Figures from the recently released School... Read More

Partial closure of Pikowai Campground

Sections of the Whakatane District Council's Pikowai campground will be closed from early-March to mid-April to allow a number of significant upgrading projects... Read More

A hairy adventure

Thousands of strands of hair were once chopped off and disposed of, destined to spend their last days in a bottomless landfill. Now, a Tauranga hair salon has... Read More

Reward offered in return for missing bike

Mount Maunganui resident Doug Hannan, is asking residents if anyone has seen his stolen bike. Doug says his beloved fat tyre beach cruiser has been stolen from... Read More

Police appeal for sightings of John Kohi Mohi

Police are continuing to investigate the disappearance of missing local man John Kohi Mohi otherwise known as John Moses. On Monday evening, February 11, police... Read More