If a Labour Government is elected on September 20 Tauranga residents can look forward to their power bills being slashed by up to $330 year, says leader David Cunliffe.... Read More

Tauranga residents will get the opportunity to meet internet mogul Kim Dotcom when he stops in Greerton today as part of the Internet Mana Party's campaign trail. Kim... Read More

United Future is next week hosting a public meeting in Tauranga to discuss the party's hunting and fishing policies. The party is encouraging keen hunters and anglers... Read More

Results of aerial and ground surveillance of the Coromandel Peninsula show the presence of Phytophythora taxon Agathis - or kauri dieback disease - isn't widespread... Read More

Prime Minister John Key has today announced senior minister Judith Collins has resigned from the Government's Cabinet. The resignation sees the Prime Minister lose... Read More

UPDATED: The Port of Tauranga schedule now states the containership Vega Auriga is due to dock at 7.30am tomorrow and will depart the same day at 1pm. Tauranga independent... Read More

National's Bay of Plenty candidate Todd Muller is taking his campaign to the corner of more than 50 streets in the electorate to engage voters for this year's general... Read More

It was a battle of the political heavyweights in the TVNZ arena overnight in the first round of the head-to-head debates in the lead up to the 20 September election. In... Read More

Coromandel MP Scott Simpson says there's good news for the region's resthomes as the Government announces a $10 million annual boost for aged residential care and... Read More

NZ First party leader Winston Peters is talking tough on foreign ownership, land sales and race-based political parties as seen during a public meeting in Katikati... Read More

This week National announced it would pump a further $40 million into aged care as earmarked in the recent budget. The extra funding will increase resthome bed... Read More

If Winston Peters was an animal, he'd be a crocodile - says Minister for Economic Development Steven Joyce. 'He always looks like one of those big crocodiles doesn't... Read More