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Ram-raid at Tauranga Spark store

UPDATED 9.46AM: A car has been used to smash through the front door of a Tauranga communications store. Police were called to the ram-raid at the Spark on Devonport... Read More

Car smashes into back of bus

UPDATED 9.12AM: Sunstrike is the suspected cause of a crash earlier this morning, in which a car collided with a stationary bus. The incident occurred on Levers... Read More

Mental health under the spotlight

Mental health will be under the spotlight when inspirational speaker and ‘Live More Awesome' founder Jimi Hunt comes to town. He's speaking at Mount Maunganui... Read More

Waka Ama teams prepare for world champs

Tauranga has been chosen as the training ground for the seven NZ Waka Ama teams competing in the inaugural 2017 IVF Va'a World Distance Championships in Tahiti... Read More

‘Dangerous time’ on roads now here

With June to August traditionally being the most dangerous times on the roads, police have one simple message for drivers - slow down! Winter road conditions play... Read More

New cycleway section nearly open

Keen cyclists will soon have a new trail to explore in the Thames area. The Pukorokoro/Miranda to Thames section of the Hauraki Rail Trail is almost complete, with... Read More

Bad day for Tauranga sailors

Tauranga sailors featured in international competitions for all the wrong reasons today, first with Peter Burling pitch-polling at the Americas Cup, while fellow... Read More

Renewed call for wanted man

Waikato Police are renewing an appeal to the public for sightings of Anthony Brett Clegg. The 39-year-old has a Warrant To Arrest for unlawful possession of a firearm. He... Read More

ATM masquerades as phone box

A bright red 1938 telephone box has been transformed into a money machine and installed in Tairua's main street this week in what is likely to be the most unusual... Read More

Bus petition presented to council

'There's never been a public outcry like this in Tauranga.” That's the message Lee-Ann Taylor passed on to regional councillors at today's informal meeting,... Read More

Opening up about workplace bullying

Workplace bullying, it's the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. Well, Tauranga man Max Christoffersen is. Max writes, I'd like to tell you a... Read More

Land for conservation, not mining

Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki is calling on the Department of Conservation to protect public access and endangered species on conservation land, after drilling... Read More