City Life

White supremacist group remains on watchlist

A violent neo-Nazi hate group with international reach has been relisted as a terrorist entity by the New Zealand Government, amid ongoing efforts to prevent... Read More

'Hardly surviving': Sales fall after dairy raid

A Tauranga dairy owner is feeling panicked as his sales plummet after a ram raid. Police called Varinder Singh on July 1 at 1.30am to say that his store had... Read More

Rotorua police crackdown on illegal dirt bikes

Rotorua police are planning a crackdown on illegal dirt bike riders, with a senior officer warning it could be only a matter of time before someone is killed... Read More

Tauranga dominates women’s basketball

Tauranga U18 Women's Team (back row, from left): Joseph Broughton, Aaliyah Hill, Richard McClenaghan, Charis Broughton, Kashana Murray, Jayla Teki, Jeanna Cooney,... Read More

Substation fault cuts power to thousands in city

Power has been restored to Tauranga residents following a major outage that caused traffic chaos this afternoon. A fault at Transpower's Mount Maunganui substation... Read More

Netball: Tauranga home crowd rallies behind Magic

The sold-out sign has officially gone up for the AVIS Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic's upcoming ANZ Premiership home game in Tauranga against the Central Pulse... Read More

BoP Matahui School stays open with new funding

Matahui School 'went to war” and remained open thanks to the tireless efforts of parents and the school community, according to principal Mary Woods. The... Read More

Fashionistas walk the runway in upcycled outfits

Envirohub's upcycled clothing challenge is back to divert clothing from the landfill and turn it into something fit for a runway. The designs of 63 Bay of... Read More

Flooding hits charity shop hard

'I think it was probably 11-12 o'clock the night before,” said Lesley Rutherford. 'The skies just opened up and so much water came down it had nowhere... Read More

Kaitiaki fight pathogen endangering Mauao icon

Teams working to prevent the spread of myrtle rust detected on Mauao in Mount Maunganui are warning people to stay away from pōhutukawa trees on the mountain. This... Read More

Owner reunited with cat a year after going missing

A Bay of Plenty woman is 'ecstatic” after being reunited with her pet cat a year after he went missing. Franco the cat was returned to Lynda McCalman... Read More

Heavy rain warning likely for BOP MetService says

Bay of Plenty is likely to be upgraded to a heavy rain warning tomorrow, MetService says. A heavy rain watch remains in place for the region, including Rotorua,... Read More