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Lunchbreak challenge for workers

With a number of nine to five roles becoming increasingly sedentary, leading to a greater risk of physical and mental health issues, two local businesses are challenging... Read More

Bay booms from tourist spend

The Bay of Plenty's reputation as a region on the rise is having a positive effect on the tourism sector, with latest figures showing a $63 million increase in... Read More

Minister praises Waikato-Tainui

Minister for Maori Development and Associate Minister for Economic Development Te Ururoa Flavell has praised recent initiatives by Waikato-Tainui that benefit its... Read More

New facade for Village Cinema

This afternoon at The Incubator in the Tauranga Historic Village, Nick Eggleston and Clare Birch are putting the final touches to a large mural. On Monday the artwork... Read More

Paragliding off Mauao

Stepping off the summit of Mauao by paraglider wasn't something on my bucket list, but as I love to explore life a little randomly, I tend to write my list retrospectively... Read More

Cultivating careers in horticulture

About 250 secondary students from Bay of Plenty secondary schools descended on Te Puke and Paengaroa horticultural businesses last week in a bid to give students... Read More

Making hay the old-fashioned way

Vintage machinery - including a hay stacker with a possible link to a local family - will come alive on April 9 when Tauranga Vintage Machinery Club's Crank Up... Read More

Sweet 70th anniversary for honey dynasty

Rheumatism and a desire to put the frighteners up some noisy partygoers played a big part in establishing one of the Bay of Plenty's largest family honey businesses. Mossop's... Read More

The biggest leap of her life

Vicky Barnett will plummet to the earth this April. But it's for a good cause. The site manager of Z Energy on Hewletts Rd in Tauranga is familiar with charity... Read More

Rogatkin rotates his way into history

Nicholi Rogatkin rotated his way into the history books yesterday, earning his first Crankworx Rotorua Slopestyle first place, as the new vanguard of freestyle... Read More

A lifetime of art, love, and collecting

Koula and Theo Vellinga met in Limassol, Cyprus in 1953. They fell in love and were married three months later. Over the next 52 years of married life, although... Read More

Sights set on the Olympics

He's off to represent New Zealand at the junior world competition for C1 canoe slalom in Slovakia, but his sights, long-term, are set firmly on the Olympics in... Read More