Council

Council investigate road marking mistake

Tauranga City Council has admitted an internal investigation is underway into how a series of ‘no parking' yellow lines were allowed to block a Tauranga special... Read More

$5k grant for WWI Memorial Forest

The New Zealand World War One Memorial Forest project has taken another step forward with a $5,000 grant from Mercury Bay Community Board. Made available from the... Read More

Leanne Brown wins by-election

Leanne Brown has been announced as the latest Tauranga City councillor after winning a tight race in the Mount/Papamoa Ward by-election. Voting results released... Read More

Iconic kauri walk temporarily closed

As a precautionary measure Coromandel's Long Bay Kauri Walk will be closed while soil samples are analysed to determine whether kauri dieback is present. A symptomatic... Read More

Tree protest set to fail

Attempts by a group of Matua locals to save a Ferguson Park pohutukawa tree have a hit a legal snag. According to Tauranga City Council, they have no option but... Read More

Residents question Te Puke speed limits

Proposed changes to speed limits aren't sitting well with Te Puke residents, as a 'high” number of submissions continue to flood into Western Bay of Plenty... Read More

Long Term Plan is tweaked

City Councillors took several million dollars off the back end of the proposed Long Term Plan yesterday to prevent a spread in the ten year plan's middle years. Staff... Read More

Beach works to start April/May

Work to extend a rock wall at Buffalo Beach and a geotextile seawall at Brophy's Beach should get underway by late April or May. The Thames-Coromandel District Council... Read More

Fire permits suspended once more

Another dose of hot, dry weather has forced the Western Bay Moana Rural Fire Authority to once again place a suspension on all open air fire permits. Principal Rural... Read More

ELECTION UPDATE: Brown and Wilson lead

A progress report on the Mount Maunganui/Papamoa by-election shows Leanne Brown in the lead by a slim margin of 32 votes, ahead of Clare Wilson. Leanne Brown (top... Read More

Library reclaims non-fiction

Tauranga City Library has reclaimed another of its prized areas from the mould outbreak, with the non-fiction section reopen to the public. On the library's website... Read More

Water main blowout at the Mount

The Mall in Pilot Bay is closed today after a water main blew out near the intersection with Prince Avenue last night. The water flooded the basement of a nearby... Read More