Sports

Blackcaps returning for ND team

Northern Districts will have the services of their Blackcaps teammates for this round of the Plunket Shield, having returned from their tour of India. Captain... Read More

BOP Women's Sevens squad announced

Bay of Plenty Rugby Women's Sevens Head Coach Victoria Grant has named her Bay of Plenty Women's Sevens Squad for the 2017/18 season following Saturday's Baywide... Read More

Night bathed in day at Bay Oval

They look like something straight out of Pacific Rim, the American science fiction monster movie. Giant humanoid robots dominating the skyline down Totara Street.... Read More

Cricketers fall short against Northland

The Bay of Plenty senior representative team have returned home from the far north of the country, after just falling short of grabbing first innings points from... Read More

Bay jet sprint team set for season

A Bay of Plenty jet sprint team kicked off the season with an impressive start in Wanaka recently. Aaron Hansen and Julie Ann Shanks, now in their third season... Read More

Report card for maestro McMillan

'We should be bloody proud of this guy.” The chief executive officer, Bay of Plenty Rugby's Mike Rogers, is musing on his main man - Steamers' coach Clayton... Read More

Burling’s mid-ocean mail call

Peter Burling's crewmates had to tell him he's won World Sailor of the Year, again - this time while he was on the mainsheet on board Team Brunel in the Volvo Ocean... Read More

Baywide Cup play continues despite rain

In spite of the wet weather lurking around the periphery of the region, all three Baywide Cup games scheduled for Saturday produced a result, albeit with minor... Read More

Baywide Club Sevens titles decided

The weather didn't hinder the excitement of sevens rugby at Paengaroa on Saturday. In the Open Men's Sir Gordon Tietjens Trophy final, Greerton Marist and Tauranga... Read More

Breaking down barriers

Despite having impaired vision, eleven-year-old Lawson Greenway is defying all odds. As a baby he was declared as legally blind, but that isn't slowing him down... Read More

Climbers oppose Mount ban

A proposal in the draft Mauao management plan to remove climbers from the Maunga has resulted in a large number of climbers opposing the issue. The reason for removing... Read More

Tauranga shortlisted for America's Cup

A trio from Emirates Team New Zealand visited Tauranga this week assessing the harbour and vicinity for the America's Cup challenger series and the America's Cup. 'This... Read More