02:00pm Tue 02 Aug, 2022
Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Harbourmaster team has had its busiest winter in recent memory assisting with the salvage of a number of boats in Tauranga Harbour. The... Read More
11:00am Sun 31 Jul, 2022
New Zealand's international border will be fully open from 11.59pm today. This means cruise ships and recreational yachts are able to arrive at New Zealand ports... Read More
08:00am Thu 28 Jul, 2022
Tauranga's new MP is calling on the Port of Tauranga and local iwi to come to an agreement on how the port can expand. Sam Uffindell wants the expansion to... Read More
11:30am Tue 26 Jul, 2022
The final day of the Backdoor King and Queen of the Point presented by Quiksilver was saved for the junior divisions with New Zealand representatives claiming... Read More
09:00am Mon 25 Jul, 2022
Ninety people in New Zealand drowned in 2021, says Water Safety New Zealand's chief executive Daniel Gerrard. This is an increase on the provisional annual... Read More
08:00am Mon 25 Jul, 2022
New Zealand's two surfing Olympians are the newly crowned champions for the Backdoor King and Queen of the Point presented by Quiksilver on Saturday. Billy... Read More
02:05pm Sat 23 Jul, 2022
UPDATE, 12.25PM. There are traffic delays on Maunganui Road between Bayfair and the Hewletts Road flyover, following a vehicle crash, says a SunLive reader. "Traffic... Read More
07:00pm Fri 22 Jul, 2022
The Government has launched of the country's first nationwide tsunami evacuation map. 'All of New Zealand's coastline is at risk of tsunami which means most... Read More
04:50pm Fri 22 Jul, 2022
A sunk launch has been recovered in Ōmokoroa today, which was previously a ‘navigation hazard' to those in the area. A witness tells SunLive the boat had... Read More
06:45am Thu 21 Jul, 2022
A University of Waikato PhD student has won a L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science mentoring fellowship. Only one is granted in New Zealand each year and... Read More
01:10pm Wed 20 Jul, 2022
UPDATE 1.55pm: Police have retrieved a man by boat who was reported to be mired in the estuary mud and mangroves in Welcome Bay. An ambulance is going to meet... Read More
09:10am Wed 20 Jul, 2022
It's been a three-and-a-half year wait, but it's finally happening. Tauranga's medical mission ship, the MV YWAM KOHA, will soon be departing the Port of Tauranga... Read More