Medical plastic waste could be transformed into useable energy using a new technique pioneered by a UC team. Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha/University of Canterbury... Read More

A container of dead tarantulas and 28 mangoes are among items found by hard-working Biosecurity New Zealand quarantine officers who are stopping pests and diseases... Read More

A world-leading UK volcanologist says the risk of a tour group being on Whakaari when the island erupted was 'hugely higher” than would normally be acceptable. Professor... Read More

Mauao is closed to the public today and tomorrow, July 26. Tauranga City Council is removing eight large exotic trees located on the Pilot Bay/Waikorire side... Read More

A Tauranga funeral home is facing fines of as much as $600,000 after operating a faulty cremator that left neighbouring homes, and the people inside them, 'enveloped... Read More

A new competition is being launched to promote hunting of wild goats in New Zealand. The Department of Conservation and the New Zealand Deerstalkers Association... Read More

A new study is showing the health impacts of air pollution in Mount Maunganui. Te Whatu Ora has released a health risk assessment that calculates the impacts... Read More

The Government is delivering on its climate commitment to ban new coal boilers and to phase out by 2037, existing coal boilers, the Energy and Resources Minister... Read More

An organisation created to protect the Bay of Plenty's fragile ecosystem has marked a major milestone. Tauranga Moana Biosecurity Capital launched five years... Read More

Some tracks and forest near Tauranga are closing due to the discovery of kauri disease in the Kaimai Mamaku ranges. Provisional positive test results have... Read More

Provisional positive test results have detected the pathogen responsible for kauri disease - on a track near the Wharawhara entrance of Kaimai Mamaku Conservation... Read More

For the president of the New Zealand Feijoa Growers Association and small-scale grower Roger Matthews, the move from a long career in local government management... Read More