04:05pm Wed 05 Aug, 2015
A binding referendum on whether to continue adding fluoride to the Thames water supply will go ahead later this year. At its meeting today the Thames-Coromandel... Read More
02:48pm Wed 05 Aug, 2015
Hearings on The Thames-Coromandel District Council's Proposed District Plan have now closed and the hearings panel is in deliberations. District Plans controls the... Read More
12:02pm Wed 05 Aug, 2015
The new Te Puke Highway - formerly State Highway 2 - has officially passed into the hands of Western Bay of Plenty District Council. Ownership and maintenance of... Read More
09:56am Wed 05 Aug, 2015
A Coromandel dairy farmer has been convicted and fined $72,750 for deliberately discharging effluent into farm drains that flow to the Tairua River. Farmer Peter... Read More
11:29am Tue 04 Aug, 2015
After dropping in on the region to open the Tauranga Eastern Link, Prime Minister John Key reflects on his recent visit to the Bay of Plenty in this exclusive column... Read More
02:02pm Mon 03 Aug, 2015
The Thames-Coromandel District Council says several projects in the Coromandel-Colville ward have now been or are close to being completed. These projects include... Read More
03:03pm Fri 31 Jul, 2015
Coromandel Area School students have joined with RSA members to launch the first plantings of the World War One memorial site for Coromandel. On Thursday the schoolchildren... Read More
09:32am Fri 31 Jul, 2015
The Waikato Regional Council says it's concerned proposed changes to the national plan for managing tuberculosis in cows may be somewhat hypocritical when it comes... Read More
05:57pm Thu 30 Jul, 2015
A relaxed Prime Minister began his Tauranga Eastern Link opening speech thanking and complimenting organisers of the powhiri and, in particular, kaumatua for the... Read More
04:02pm Wed 29 Jul, 2015
City council's plan to sell off the green space bordering the ‘entrance to the city' is being challenged by residents accusing the authority of hiding information. Council... Read More
07:14am Wed 29 Jul, 2015
Several hundred homes in Welcome Bay will be affected by a water shutdown tomorrow morning. Tauranga City Council says home on and around Waitaha Road will have... Read More
04:08pm Tue 28 Jul, 2015
The toll road formerly known as Route K moves to electronic tolling this Saturday, rendering all old Tauranga City council toll cards useless in the process. Now... Read More