Council

Council promotes water efficiency

The Tauranga City Council's waterline team has begun promotion of free home water efficiency audits. The team is able to make house calls, offer hints on how to... Read More

Mains work continues

Watermain upgrade work continues along Marine Parade between Commons Avenue and Grove Avenue, and down Grove Avenue itself this week. The first block of work has... Read More

Council meets, deputy mayor elected

Tauranga City Deputy Mayor remains David Stewart after he was re-elected to the position unopposed at Tauranga City Council's first meeting of the new council on... Read More

Countdown on for new council

The first meeting of the new Tauranga City Council is on Tuesday, October 26. The councillors will be sworn in, and a deputy mayor chosen, but Mayor Stuart Crosby... Read More

Making it last longer

Tauranga City Council is advising people who live between 4th Avenue and 7th Avenue of proposed works to be conducted along Takitimu Drive and the disruption this... Read More

Tsunami practice hailed successful

Bay of Plenty Civil Defence officials say they successfully evacuated 78,000 people from the Bay's tsunami-threatened coast in Wednesday's operation Tangaroa exercise. Warwick... Read More

Cronin regional chairman, again

Tauranga resident John Cronin is returned as the Bay of Plenty Regional Council chairman after the council's first meeting in Whakatane. John Cronin. Philip Sherry... Read More

Tauranga aims for café culture

The footpath past the bars on The Strand is permanently moved across to its new alignment - 4.7 metres away from the buildings. The Tauranga City Council rules for... Read More

Two week wait for tower call

A decision on the ugliness of cell phone towers and their adverse effect on nearby property values are not expected for at least two weeks. The site at Maungatapu. The... Read More

Storm water pollution response

Tauranga City Council's pollution team attended two incidents last week. Both incidents involved the discharge of cement slurry and high pH wash water into stormwater... Read More

Cheap parking, no solution

Tauranga Mayor Stuart Crosby admits the new parking initiatives announced by the city council and Priority One are not going to solve the central city's parking... Read More

Mayor backs Stewart in third term

Newly re-elected Tauranga Mayor Stuart Crosby is backing David Stewart for a third term as the city's deputy mayor. Stuart Crosby says he would be happy to have... Read More