Pyes Pā’s Good Local pub is poised to reopen several months after an early-morning electrical fire in the kitchen forced it ...

A Royal New Zealand Air Force firefighter who was at the forefront of lifesaving actions during last year’s Auckland floods, ...

An early-morning electrical fire in the Good Local pub kitchen on April 26 saw the business close. “It’s been a long road, ...

Young Māori singer-songwriter and producer Micah Porter has just released Runaway a slice of indie pop with soulful leanings.

Du Plessis started seeing a psychologist to work through it. When asked what he would say to someone considering become an ...

A group of eight GirlGuiding rangers from around the Bay of Plenty are preparing to head to Japan next year. The rangers are from three units – four from Tauranga, three from Katikati, and one from ...

Tauranga City Council elected members and staff have started work on the draft 2025/2026 Annual Plan, which will take effect from July 1 next year, with genuine and comprehensive community involvement ...

Can’t recall the streets being awash with blood and mutilated bodies after previous Christmas parades? Don’t know how H&S reconciled the fact that 70 floats in the parade travelled at a stop/start ...

The majority were there to deliver a letter to elected members, asking the council to oppose a resource consent application ...

A new bill to make serving drinks at hair salons legal has surprised the industry, with many unaware they were in breach of ...

The tangi, for a prominent Mongrel Mob member and his partner, was largely a peaceful affair, according to a family member ...

Fourteen people have been arrested, and a vehicle and two firearms seized, following gang activity after a funeral in ...