Tauranga MP Simon Bridges estimates that total clean-up of the oil spill in the Tauranga Harbour will reach $500,000 by the time it is finished sometime next week. About... Read More

‘Stop the forced closure of Aboriginal communities in Australia' is the message being shouted by the Bay of Plenty Peoples Network. The network, joined by... Read More

It was all about minuscule timeframes, so they had to be precise. On April 16 at exactly 10.42am - that's 10:42 and 20 seconds. One minute earlier George Gomez rolled... Read More

Further impact from Monday's oil spill has emerged at the Tauranga Bridge Marina, where oil from under the Mount wharf has contaminated berths, boats, fenders and... Read More

Iwi representatives, scientists and clean-up staff from the regional council are meeting on Motuopuhi (Rat Island) this morning to agree on a collaborative approach... Read More

The Tauranga public have exceeded all expectations with more than 8000 people packing into Tauranga Domain for the city's 'significant” combined civic service. The... Read More

New sonar surveys have confirmed that the wreck of the Rena has shifted further down the Astrolabe Reef and is breaking up. A multibeam survey carried out by ADUS... Read More

'Excuse me barista…there is a pachyderm in my flat white.” 'Very sorry Sir, perhaps you would prefer a little daisy, a panda, a cat?” Tegan Poole... Read More

It was a moment of triumph for Tauranga's Shane Morgan and his Mag and Turbo team. His demolition derby car came off the track muddy, battered and broken - and with... Read More

Councillors were in Papamoa this morning in an attempt to gauge what the Papamoa community thinks should be in the Tauranga City Council Long Term Plan. The city... Read More

With the arrival of Autumn, the days are getting shorter, the nights are getting cooler and, as the sun starts to leave us over the coming weeks, so does much of... Read More

Motivated, diabolic, galvanised and a want to destroy everything on the track. That's how SunMedia's David Tauranga is feeling prior to his big demolition derby... Read More