06:41am Wed 20 Sep, 2017
Tauranga City Council is going to formal public consultation over Easter Sunday trading, after receiving an early survey result showing 49 per cent of nearly 6000... Read More
05:49pm Tue 19 Sep, 2017
An independent review of the Whakatane District Council's response to the April flooding and storm emergency has highlighted 'many positives”, as well as... Read More
05:13pm Tue 19 Sep, 2017
Whakatane District Council has won Supreme Website Award for the third year running at ALGIM's 2017 Spring Web and Digital and Customer Experience Conference. The... Read More
04:22pm Mon 18 Sep, 2017
The Western Bay of Plenty District Council is pleased with the outcome of the recent Environment Court decision confirming the forested part of Matakana Island... Read More
07:08am Mon 18 Sep, 2017
Tauranga City councillor Terry Molloy received an unexpected answer when he asked Jo Wills how the city council could encourage people to use public transport instead... Read More
03:40pm Sun 17 Sep, 2017
Tauranga City Council is breaching the second of its Te Maunga Wastewater Treatment Plant consents, this time with the ultra violet plant which is supposed to kill... Read More
09:50am Sun 17 Sep, 2017
Western Bay of Plenty District Mayor Garry Webber is looking for a local artist to help decorate the mayoral office. He's putting up $1500 of his own money to commission... Read More
07:23am Sat 16 Sep, 2017
Tauranga and the wider Western Bay of Plenty is one of five pilot areas selected for the Welcoming Communitiesprogramme, alongside Southland, Whanganui, Palmerston... Read More
12:44pm Fri 15 Sep, 2017
Tauranga City Councillors have opted for a new voting system for at least the next two local elections. The plan is to replace our current system of voting, First... Read More
01:55pm Thu 14 Sep, 2017
The pace of change, building communities, protecting our environment and getting around are the key themes emerging from community conversations on the Long Term... Read More
01:09pm Thu 14 Sep, 2017
Booze-fuelled crime and disorder at Waitawheta's popular Dickey Flat campsite has prompted the Council to propose a permanent ban on alcohol in the area. Mayor... Read More
11:46am Thu 14 Sep, 2017
A Mount Maunganui pet food company has been the subject of 170 bad odour complaints to the Bay of Plenty Regional Council. Of those, 153 have been made since 2016. BOPRC... Read More