Latest from Tauranga

Local Focus: From suppression to leading the world, the Māori tattoo resurgence
Artists around the world ‘look towards us for guidance’. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Local Focus: From suppression to leading the world, the Māori tattoo resurgence
Artists around the world 'look towards us for guidance'. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Man who tested positive for Covid-19 couldn't get through to helpline for 4 days
Te Mahau Kingi tested positive for the virus after returning to Auckland from London.

Where do the backpackers go while seeking isolation?
"But it shouldn't be our job to be immigration."

Local Focus: Down syndrome reality very different to mothers' expectations
Celebrating World Down Syndrome Day. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

'I snapped': Tauranga mayor faces complaint
'I knew what I was doing. I wanted to be angry to a point but not crazy angry.'

Coronavirus: 56 New Zealanders on board cruise ship with four confirmed cases
The cruise ship visited a number of New Zealand ports.

School holiday programmes geared up to start early
School holiday programmes ready to help if schools close.

Bella Vista Homes failed development accused trial continues
The trial for those charged over Bella Vista Homes development failures entered day three.

Two seriously injured in SH5 crash near Rotorua
State Highway likely to be closed for some time.

Chronic road work noise causing sleepless nights
One resident has slept at his friend's house for nine months due to the Bay Link works.

'This is a very uncertain and difficult time': Government's response package welcomed by Bay business leaders
Tauranga tourism company will lose about $150,000 in one month.

Golden Princess passenger tests negative for virus
The cruise ship ban was an 'unprecedented event'.

NZ port to lose 15 cruise ship visits with ban
Port of Tauranga to lose 15 scheduled cruise ship visits with ban.

Local Focus: Tattoo show goes ahead without international stars
Just 48 hours to get home to Greenland. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Local Focus: Tattoo Extravaganza goes ahead without headline stars
International artists affected as borders close. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

'Dead quiet': Tauranga man speaks about life in quarantined Italy
The death toll from the virus in Italy topped 1000 today.

Remember the victims, not the 'black day': Tauranga mosque leader
A Tauranga Muslim leader says we should not mark March 15. Here's why.

Local Focus: Introducing the China Lions
Bay of Plenty's newest rugby side kicks off against Fiji. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Local Focus: Introducing the China Lions
Bay of Plenty's newest rugby side plays Fiji tomorrow. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Local Focus: Tauranga rates rise under fire
Residents question 12.6 per cent rates hike. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Local Focus: Tauranga rates rise under fire
Residents question 12.6 per cent rates hike. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Waihī drowning: Body of missing teen found
The boy reportedly got caught in a rip on February 21.

Tauranga transient back behind bars for 131st time
A well-known recidivist dishonesty offender has been jailed for more than four months.

Meet the first Kiwi band to top NZ singles chart since Lorde
But Shadbolt can't pinpoint what it is about In the Air that makes it so popular.

Cruise ship with no passengers to dock in Tauranga
The 286-metre Noordom will stay for five nights.

Missing elderly Tauranga man with 'slight dementia' found
Lewis Hewitt took a car from his rest home and left about 4pm yesterday.