Changing the conversation about the Tauranga CBD is what Sonya Korohina is aiming to do with a new art walk and app.   “I really want us to have fresh eyes on our city,” says Sonya. The director of Supercut Projects has developed...

An old timer from the Bay of Plenty will be among 52 vehicles on display at the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand's veteran car rally in Gore this weekend. Kaaren Smylie and her husband Jim left their Tauranga home on Saturday in their 107-year-old...

  Locally owned and operated, Kleana Bins is facing an annual turnover loss of between 70 and 80 per cent, thanks to Tauranga City Council’s decision to charge residents a targeted rate for kerbside waste collections next year.   Managing...

Climbing Mauao is a popular way to exercise but not many do it wearing 20kg of firefighting gear. Members of the Waihi Mine Rescue Team donned their full firefighting kit and climbed the mountain as training for the Firefighter Sky Tower Stair Challenge. Climbing...

  Festivals are popping up all over the place as organisers shed the shackles of a pesky pandemic.   One of those is touted as ‘the little festival with big ideas’ – Escape! - which was originally scheduled for Queen’s...

  Can you read a map, solve a puzzle, look for clues and ride a bike?   It’s time to solve all the puzzles in this year’s Great K Valley Cycle Adventure. The action-packed scavenger hunt by cycle is one of Tauranga’s...

Writing ‘good, honest music’ is more important than ever for Bic Runga this year. She says the practice has helped keep her spirits high during a confronting time. And the New Zealand pop songstress will soon treat Tauranga to these...

  The Blue Rovers Junior Football Club under-15 Federation team have beaten five other teams to take out the win in their Bay of Plenty/Waikato league this season.   It’s a huge achievement for this close-knit group of boys, many...

  Men are rolling into the arena of Roller Derby for the first time in the 10-year history of the sport in Tauranga.   Roller derby returns on Saturday, when local team Moana Roller Derby take on their Hamilton counterparts - Hellmilton...

  Tauranga’s Kathleen Kilgour Centre has adopted a breakthrough regime for women with low risk breast cancer and it is slashing the time these patients need radiotherapy.   The new treatment means women with early stage breast cancer...

  A new site is aiming to simplify the web experience for small businesses by giving them tools to maximise people’s online interactions with them.   Like Your Local is a website where businesses can create a simple website and personalise...

  Denise Lee says she found her best friend at a meeting of the Tauranga Patchwork & Quilters Group.   “I joined the club about 13 or 14 years ago. My children had just left home,” says Denise. “I had never worked as...

  A Tauranga mum says the pain of losing two babies never goes away.   But Belinda Roddick has found sharing her story aids healing and helps raise awareness for a topic that is rarely spoken about. Belinda suffered a miscarriage when...

  Years of hard work have finally paid off for two Mount Maunganui dads with the Arataki pump track now finished.   Kids can be seen biking, skateboarding and riding scooters around the undulating asphalt track. James Petterson and Paul...

  Tauranga DJ Daniel Cox reckons autism is too often swept under the rug.   So as a way to generate more awareness, he has organised the interactive event ‘Light up the Night’ that is set to take place this weekend. Daniel...

  Do secondary students anywhere else in New Zealand spend more than three hours on a school bus each day?   While other students are still rubbing their eyes open and eating their breakfast, the students of Omokoroa and the surrounding...

  A man with ‘ice in his veins’ has bought his passion to Tauranga in the form of an ice rink.   Darren Woodacre has been working with ice for 35 years and has even studied ice making at the University of Guelph in Canada. “Give...

  Tauranga lawyer and philanthropist, Denise Arnold, has been named a finalist in this year’s Women of Influence Awards.   Denise was named as one of seven finalists in the ‘global’ category of the annual awards for her...

  Kokako bird numbers in the Otanewainuku forest have increased by 15 since 2018 according to the latest survey conducted recently by the Otanewainuku Kiwi Trust.   Trust Chairman Bruce Fraser says teams of volunteers under the guidance...

  Community sports clubs rise or fall on the back of the voluntary effort put in by enthusiastic club members. They’re a special breed – often with a long, unsung list of achievements.   Trying to convey the magnitude of the...

  Two-time Olympic gold medalist rower Eric Murray is lending his star power to the Tauranga Rowing Club’s first ‘Ergathon’ fundraiser at Tauranga Boys’ College gymnasium this weekend.   The event is being held to...

  Anne Wintle enjoys the good feeling that comes from regular exercise and attends Zumba and aerobics classes.   “The Zumba Gold class is taken by young and vibrant Tina, and the aerobics class by a lovely older lady called Rita,”...

  The prayer for world peace will get through one way or another as faiths of all kinds combine their spiritual energy next week.   The Tauranga Moana Interfaith Council hosts an annual prayer event that has gradually been growing in popularity. The...

  The Papamoa Cenotaph has been having the final elements of a wall, seating and landscaping installed this week, thanks to the generosity of many locals.   “The last part of the landscaping design is a World War 1 type trench,”...

  People may have to watch their heads as they wander through the public land that makes up Otumoetai Golf Club.   Underfoot – that’s another matter. The club has just purchased a mower worth almost $60,000 and the result is...

  At age 15 Lloyd Baker had never left Taranaki that all changed when he got his first motorbike, a Harley Davidson.   From there the world opened up and he started to travel the country. Some 76 years later, he’s still enjoying...

  The Tauranga Sikh community is hosting its third ‘Turban Day’ at the Tauranga waterfront this Saturday, October 3, from 11.30-2pm.   While it’s an opportunity for members of the public to try on a turban, and learn about...

  Seventy artists unleashed more than 400 original works on the public this week as the Tauranga Society of Artists finally got to hold its big event, originally scheduled to be held in April.   Bubbles, beer and canapes flowed before the...

  Les Marsh plans to climb Mauao on his 100th birthday.   He is keeping fit each day by doing laps of the garden at Radius Althorp retirement village where he lives. The laps began when the country moved to Level 2 again and a lot of rest...