'It was really cold,” says Heart Kids Bay of Plenty chair Rachael Parkes of her time in the icy sludge at this year's Heart Stopper Challenge at Coronation... Read More

The Trustpower TECT Rescue Helicopter was dispatched this morning to a walking track near the Aongatete Lodge. On the track a 62-year-old Tauranga man had been checking... Read More

The calls for the New Zealand government to echo the UK's ban on sugary fizzy drinks is not being supported by Tauranga life coach and author Leigh Elder, who says... Read More

There remain many people on Vanuatu who still are without a regular water supply a year after category 5 cyclone Pam devastated the island group. There's one island... Read More

Josh Svendsen 'was like a new baby once he was fixed” at just eight days old. He doesn't remember much of what happened, but his mum Tash does. The 11-year-old... Read More

Reheated fish and chips, cold pizza, and beer on cornflakes are becoming more regular items on Kiwi breakfast tables according to new research. Fast food breakfasts... Read More

There's last of the summerfruit to be harvested, Royal Gala picking getting underway, beans, courgettes and peppers bursting out all over the place and everyone's... Read More

The rule normally is: what happens in fight club, stays in fight club, but this is not the case with martial arts in Tauranga. The Tauranga Martial Arts Academy... Read More

Rheumatic fever rates in the Waikato have halved since the launch of a community-led prevention programme in April of last year. Waikato District Health Board figures... Read More

Primary cervical screening test will change to screening for the human papillomavirus every five years from 2018. The test changes from analysing cells to detect... Read More

The Maungatapu underpass project has tested asbestos free after about 3000 tonnes of asbestos contaminated soil was removed from outside the former Welcome Bay scout... Read More

Parafed Bay of Plenty has presented its first-ever Life Membership to four time Paralympian Jim Savage. The 79-year-old Kawerau native, who now lives in Tauranga,... Read More