Placing a cap of four cats per household and micro-chipping and registering cats are proposed actions Tauranga City Council can take to help change the city's domestic... Read More

Legal high sales will be restricted to one retailer in the CBD of each of the Katikati and Te Puke townships under Western Bay of Plenty District Council's proposed... Read More

A Papamoa mother's campaign to curb Bay Hopper bus speeds is accelerating with the backing of Tauranga City Councillor Steve Morris. Sam Norton launched a Facebook... Read More

Submissions close at 4pm this Thursday on BOP Regional Council's Draft Annual Plan for 2014/15, which sets out council's key programmes and projects for the coming... Read More

Katikati Heritage Museum is holding a public meeting today to explain to Western Bay ratepayers its financial position - either it receives council funding or it... Read More

The Government intends to disband regional councils, destroy the Resource Management Act and create a unitary council under a regime of forced amalgamation, says... Read More

A Papamoa mother is mounting a campaign to get Bay Hopper buses to reduce their speeds around the suburb's streets and nearby school. Each morning Sam Norton walks... Read More

Mayor Stuart Crosby will be speaking with councillors on Monday over the decision to hire what detractors are calling a ‘spin doctor' for the city mayor. Deputy... Read More

A specialist three-person panel will sit down in Tauranga this week to tackle key local government reform issues facing the Bay of Plenty. On Wednesday, Bob Owens... Read More

A new innovation centre will be built at Scion's Te Papa Tipu Innovation Park after BOP Regional Council signed an agreement with the Crown research institute. The... Read More

Katikati has a problem with people addicted to drugs - and if legal highs can't be banned Western Bay District Council needs to make it tougher to sell them. That... Read More

Tauranga City Council's announced intention to again drive the city art gallery into deficit will be fought in the 2014/2015 draft annual plan submissions process,... Read More