News

Exporters awards entries now open

Bay of Plenty exporters are invited to share their successes with the rest of New Zealand in entering the 2017 Bay of Plenty Export Awards. ExportNZ is wanting... Read More

Powerlifter wins heavyweight scholarship

A powerlifting vegan with an interest in mudflat hydrodynamics has won this year's Stella Frances Scholarship awarded by Waikato Regional Council and the Department... Read More

Post-flood support for parents

Ministry of Education representatives will be at Whakatane and Kawerau from tomorrow to support parents with school and school holiday arrangements. They will be... Read More

New leadership team for Toi Ohomai

The Bay of Plenty's largest tertiary provider, Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, has announced the appointment of its new senior leadership team. Toi Ohomai Chief... Read More

Getting real and dreaming big

The Business Women's Network, an arm of the Tauranga Chamber of Commerce, is again presenting the biennial Craigs Investment Partners and Cooney Lees Morgan Regional... Read More

New plan for palliative care

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman has launched a new plan for palliative care, calling it a priority for the government. Recent statistics predict a 51 per cent... Read More

All Black pays local school a visit

Students at ACG Tauranga would have been impressed on Friday, when local All Black Nathan Harris dropped in for a meet and greet. The Steamers and Chiefs player... Read More

Volunteers make book sale possible

One was a surgeon in a past life, another was a journalist, a third an anaesthetist. A fourth walks past and I'm told she was a star singer. People from all walks... Read More

Limited access to Edgecumbe

Edgecumbe residents whose houses are in dry zones will be given access to their homes for a brief period today. These residents are asked to go to Civil Defence... Read More

Cult Cinema Club launches in Tauranga

Tauranga's Cult Cinema Club launched on Friday night with a screening of The Big Lebowski. Held at the newly refurbished Village Cinema in the Tauranga Historic... Read More

Kayakers waiting for river to drop

More than 100 teenage kayakers are playing a waiting game in the aftermath of the Eastern Bay of Plenty's tumultuous flooding this week. The New Zealand Secondary... Read More

Rescue helicopter dispatched for hunter

The Trustpower TECT rescue helicopter was dispatched to the Ruatahuna Valley at 4.30pm yesterday after a hunter fell into a river. The 76-year-old man was pulled... Read More