05:00pm Wed 19 Mar, 2025
Lush farms are turning into deserts as drought conditions worsen and farmers struggle to grow grass. A drought has been declared in the Northland, Waikato,... Read More
06:00pm Tue 18 Mar, 2025
Are you curious about what's happening in the forests, reserves, and coastal areas around Whakamārama and Ōmokoroa? A new EWOC - Environmental Whakamārama... Read More
12:00pm Sun 16 Mar, 2025
Western Bay community boards have hit back at a proposal to merge, with one saying it would be 'eroding a democracy”. At an appeal hearing on Thursday... Read More
01:00pm Sat 15 Mar, 2025
Fish & Game has announced that game bird hunting licences for the 2025 season are now on sale. With the season fast approaching with Opening Day on May 3,... Read More
11:45am Sat 15 Mar, 2025
Te Puke kiwifruit growers Blair Dyer and Steve Atkinson have won the Regional Supreme Award at the Bay of Plenty Ballance Farm Environment Awards in Tauranga. Blair... Read More
08:00am Sat 15 Mar, 2025
Zespri's first charter shipment of the 2025 New Zealand kiwifruit season has set sail from Tauranga bound for Shanghai. The vessel, Kowhai - which was named... Read More
02:00pm Fri 14 Mar, 2025
NZ Mountain Safety Council is reminding hunters to 'have a hmmm” and make careful route choices to stay safe, as this year's Roar hunting season kicks... Read More
06:00pm Wed 12 Mar, 2025
Harry Horman was in tears describing the devastation of a mystery fire that destroyed his caravan and all but one of his nine classic cars. Horman, a classic... Read More
09:52am Mon 10 Mar, 2025
Witnesses to the fire in Minden say it was a like an apocalyptic scene with clouds of billowing smoke and a sound of 'a couple of explosions”. Emergency... Read More
07:30pm Sun 09 Mar, 2025
Firefighters from Tauranga and the surrounding area are responding to a large garage fire on a Minden property in western Bay of Plenty. A nearby resident... Read More
08:00pm Fri 07 Mar, 2025
The Government's City and Regional Deals initiative has received a great response from regions across New Zealand, and is now into the assessment stage... Read More
07:00am Fri 07 Mar, 2025
It's the horses that do the teaching at Ōropi's Equine Dynamics. Inspired by the experience of her own battle with anxiety and depression, Leanne Benjamin... Read More