Teacher aide humbled to be given a second chance

A Tauranga wildlife photographer was diving with friends when two orca "appeared out of nowhere".

Authorities say a dog responsible for mauling a young fur seal to death on Pukehina Beach "refused to let go" of the terrified animal when people tried to intervene.

it's time for Kiwi men to take more responsibility for their prostate health.

Two Tauranga sisters with cystic fibrosis have been named as finalists in a national award for their good deeds to raise awareness

US presidential hopeful Donald Trump is being used to lure younger Tauranga voters to a Meet the Candidates evening next week. Tauranga

A woman living in a caravan on a friend's lawn has been forced to move out because she breached city rules by staying there for more

Retiring All Blacks Sevens coach Sir Gordon Tietjens has called for a central base for the sport to be established. Tietjens yesterday

Stacey Kemey's Tauranga home is filled with light - and children. We're greeted at the door by Archer, who's almost four years old

A Tauranga man is to hold a community clean-up after finding a shocking amount of rubbish dumped at one of the Bay's tourist hotspots. Nathan

Tauranga motorcyclist Rhys Middleton was killed by an overseas driver. Now his mother is campaigning for a change in the law allowing visitors to drive in NZ.

It's not just Aucklanders scrambling to afford property.

About 250 students have gathered on the first morning of the 2016 AIMS Games to mark the occasion with breakfast on the shores of

Sometimes Erin O'Neill wished her meth-addicted son would die of an overdose to free him from the scourge.

A Papamoa man immensely proud of the success and efforts of Bay athletes at this year's Olympics has renamed a residential street

Michelle Cutelli first met AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd when she was 20, fast forward 30 years and the pair are an item.

The former AC/DC drummer opens up about his heart attack, new relationship and family.

New data from Statistics NZ and Infometrics' quarterly economic monitor show Bay of Plenty house building consents are now ranked

A Bay of Plenty mother has been killed in a car crash beside an intersection that Maori elders say urgently needed safety improvements. The

Police are praising the efforts of a Tauranga runner who survived becoming lost in the Kaimai Range. The 42-year-old woman had become

Tauranga is about to get a huge new five-theatre multiplex cinema with more than 1000 seats. Mark Taylor, a director of Tauranga

More than half of New Zealand's 41,000 homeless people are now families with children, according to new Otago University research.

Further details have been released about the outlets set to open at the Bay's newest shopping centre. After a decade in the making

A national day recognising New Zealand land wars will not affect local commemorations of Tauranga's two fierce battles. Work is underway

Papamoa dad fled his burning home with two-year-old daughter in his arms and then realised his oldest daughter still might be inside.

It's never too late for love as Western Bay Councillor Margaret Murray-Benge and former Reserve Bank governor and National Party leader

A new four-bedroom, suburban, brick and tile family home in Papamoa has sold for $1 million - a price that ''beat all expectations'' of the company that built it.

Port of Tauranga posted a 2.3 per cent decline in full-year profit, partly reflecting an accounting change but also a sharp decline in log volume.

Two men stormed into the Carlisle Street dairy armed with a plastic pistol and a knife but left with nothing.

A Tauranga mother who has already raised $28,000 for a cochlear implant for her daughter has been frustrated by the news she needs