02:30pm Sat 02 Nov, 2019
A power cut to Mount Maunganui on Friday night meant that many bar and restaurant patrons were faced with a late night dinner in the dark. The power outage which... Read More
01:30pm Sat 02 Nov, 2019
The arrival into port of one of the season's largest cruise ships, combined with hundreds of people running from Tauranga to Mount Maunganui means business as... Read More
10:30am Sat 02 Nov, 2019
The first cadet employed under Industrial Symbiosis Kawerau or ISK's Kawerau Pathways to Work Cadetship programme has been announced. Tanaya Rudolph-Wilson... Read More
07:00am Sat 02 Nov, 2019
Bright blue mats were rolled out across Mount Maunganui beaches on Labour weekend. The portable, roll out mats located at Pilot Bay, the Mount Maunganui Cenotaph... Read More
06:50am Sat 02 Nov, 2019
'Mother Nature is my girl, and these are my babies.” Dean Morman, a 50-something-year-old horticulture landscape designer musing on his Papamoa backyard.... Read More
06:38am Thu 31 Oct, 2019
Tauranga City Council's glass recycling service is celebrating its first anniversary with some stellar results. In its first year, the kerbside glass collection... Read More
09:59am Tue 29 Oct, 2019
The garden beds appear overgrown as flowers, grass and a few weeds weave their way between the plants, but everything is planted with a purpose. The barley is... Read More
04:06pm Mon 28 Oct, 2019
A new primary industry could emerge in Tauranga as a local company teams up with an Australian-based medicinal cannabis company to grow the plant, and research... Read More
09:23am Mon 28 Oct, 2019
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake happened early this morning 20km south of Tauranga. The weak quake happened at 5:44am and was 276km deep so wasn't felt by many. A... Read More
07:02am Mon 28 Oct, 2019
Dolphin Seafaris is the first tourism operator in the North Island to have been awarded the Department of Conservation's SMART accreditation. SMART stands for... Read More
09:13am Sun 27 Oct, 2019
Skydive Tauranga has committed to become carbon neutral by 2025 through a partnership with conservation charity Trees that Count. The aviation business is dependent... Read More
02:59pm Sat 26 Oct, 2019
Craig Parson's presents his 25-year-old award-winning orchid with a bright smile plastered across his face. 'It's a spectacular specimen. There's nothing I don't... Read More