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Lifeguards praised for ‘job well done’

Surf Life Saving New Zealand is praising its volunteer lifeguards for a job well done as the season draws to an end with and zero drownings between the flags. Easter... Read More

Happy Days are here again

Chevs, Fords, Holdens, customs, motorbikes - whatever takes your fancy will be parked up at Katikati's Diggelmann Park this Easter Saturday, April 15, as the Happy... Read More

Edgecumbe Zone 4 locals allowed home

Residents from the 229 flood-affected properties in Edgecumbe Zone 4 will be able to return to their properties from midday today. This applies to people living... Read More

Basketball Classic returns to Tauranga

More than 1000 young basketballers will be shooting hoops in Tauranga this Easter weekend, when the Mel Young Easter Basketball Classic comes to town. The annual... Read More

What’s On? Jazz & cars

Good morning Sunners, and welcome to Saturday - and what a Saturday it's going to be, with plenty of exciting events taking place across the city! While the sun's... Read More

Bust out those jazz hands Tauranga

The finest jazz musicians from home and abroad will get Tauranga jumping and jiving and grooving this Easter Weekend with the return of National Jazz Festival.... Read More

Maybe more Omokoroa slips looming

Some Omokoroa residents were taking a break in the weather on Friday to move out of their homes, while engineers assess the danger of more hillside slips. People... Read More

Missing boy found

UPDATED: 3pm; Missing nine year old Sean Kuba, last seen on Mount Maunganui beach shortly before midday has been found safe and well. Sean has run off from the... Read More

Student apartments for city

Construction of a multi-storey student accommodation complex just along Durham Street from the university site is expected to be completed in time for the opening... Read More

Kaimai road re-opens

UPDATED 1.30pm: The slip that blocked SH29 over the Kaimai range overnight has been cleared and the highway re-opened. The up hill lanes were re-opened about 11.30am,... Read More

Trees block the Woods' drive

After the storm passed over last night David and Sian Wood found their drive to look around at storm damage was a very short one. 'We went to go out last night,... Read More

SH29 re-opening about noon

NZTA is advising people planning Easter travel to delay their trip as there are still a number of State Highway closures in the Bay of Plenty and Waikato regions,... Read More