Council

Mount one-way streets touted

Tauranga City Council is considering a one-way road along The Mall in Pilot Bay. The one-way road could also stretch from Adams Avenue and onto a section of Maunganui... Read More

Planting programme starts

Tauranga City Council has begun this year's planting programme at Gordon Carmichael Reserve. It is intended to have 22,000 wetland species in the new meandering... Read More

Guy: historic walk unsafe

Tauranga City Councillor and mayoral candidate Murray Guy is calling for greater consistency with its policy decisions and actions on walkway and waterfront access. Murray... Read More

Environment BOP awarded costs

Environment BOP will receive cost reimbursement following the judicial review process it went through last year when Whakatane District Council challenged its decision... Read More

Ohauiti drain polluted

Test results from recent water quality samples taken from the open drain located between Rowesdale and Harrisfield Drive have shown high levels of bacteria, following... Read More

Lining up early for mayor

Nominations for October's local government elections open on July 23, and there are already three Tauranga mayoral candidates; the incumbent Stuart Crosby, councillor... Read More

Council gets CD report

The Western Bay of Plenty's Civil Defence emergency manager, Alan Pearce, is presenting a report to Tauranga City Council on Tuesday about the state of Civil Defence... Read More

Councillors choose at-large

Tauranga City Councillors Murray Guy and Rick Curach are not standing for a ward at the next election and have instead opted for the at-large seats. There are... Read More

Rethinking library charges

The Tauranga City Councillor who proposed the motion to explore charges on some library books is reassessing his position after the first public meeting about this... Read More

Spotlight on library debate

A large attendance is expected at the first public meeting on Tauranga City Council's proposal to introduce charges on some library books, being held lunchtime,... Read More

Mayor faces book charge fury

Tauranga Mayor Stuart Crosby fronted a crowd of over 100 people at the first public meeting on the council's controversial proposal to introduce charges on some... Read More

Ducks dropping dead

Tauranga City Council is asking people to contact them when they find dead ducks in the city's reserves and waterways. This comes after recent reports of many dead... Read More