Council

Green parade for Rotorua

Grab your bike, scooter, roller skates, skateboard or walking shoes, dress in green and head down to Rotorua's Green Corridor Celebration Parade at 4.30pm next Thursday... Read More

Lane closure on Cameron Road

Southbound traffic intending to use Cameron Road in Tauranga over the next few days is being encouraged to use Takitimu Drive until at least Friday. Tauranga City... Read More

Tis’ the season to be inspired

This October the Tairua Library is launching an exciting new six week programme aiming to ignite locals' creative fires. The Season of Creativity programme looks... Read More

Tiny bug to tackle mammoth pest

In a New Zealand first, Waikato Regional Council biosecurity officers have released a bug to help control the privet pest plant. Privet lace bugs (Leptoypha hospital)... Read More

Council building options open up

Tauranga Mayor Stuart Crosby is inviting ideas on how to re-develop the city's civic campus on Willow Street as the workshopping process for the site gets underway. 'Anyone... Read More

Property market heats up over winter

The Thames-Coromandel District Council says it was an unseasonably busy winter for the team in its Land Information Memoranda (LIM) department. Over a three month... Read More

Residents to have their say

Rotorua residents have just a few days left to give feedback on inner city parking and voting arrangement proposals for next year's local government elections. Rotorua... Read More

Route K halts annual report

It's beyond Tauranga City Council's control, but their former toll road Route K is still making its presence felt at city hall. And the back slapping and congratulating... Read More

Council set for report feedback

Audit New Zealand representatives are set to give city councillors feedback today on the council's imminent annual report. Highlights of the report include a $5m... Read More

Bus trial for Waihi Beach

A Tauranga-to-Waihi Beach bus service will be trialled for three days a week from October 1, as an extension to the existing Katikati-to-Tauranga Shopper service. Once... Read More

Rural fire warning issued

Scrub and grass is already drier than normal - and the trend is expected to continue as the Western Bay of Plenty faces an El Nino weather pattern over the summer. Pumicelands... Read More

Council U-turn on memorial seat

Tauranga City Council has performed a U-turn after an 82-year-old Cherrywood man accused them of being 'callous and insensitive”. On Tuesday, an adamant council... Read More