'Tremendous' Tauranga population boom drives need for community spaces
Tauranga had seen a 60 per cent increase in demand for new community halls and spaces.
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Are election hoardings becoming redundant?
Comment: I've never been tempted to vote based on anything seen on an election billboard.
Motorcyclist has minor injuries after crash with car
Emergency services were called to the scene just after 5.30pm.
Tauranga raises $23k for cancer through Dry July
The city was the third-biggest contribution to the campaign
Spencer wins Lifetime Service Award
A volunteer for more than 60 years Spencer shares knowledge of cycling with the community.
Speed limit proposals around schools out for feedback
Western BOP District Council is undertaking a partial review of its speed limits bylaw.
Weather wrap: Drier July for Tauranga
Rainfall in July was below the historical average for the same time period.
Letters to the editor: Reserve decision the right one
Bay of Plenty readers have their say.
Club Sports Wrap: Highs and lows
A quick look at some of the club sport played during the weekend.
Why Good Vibes promoter took a risk and won
Here's why Good Vibes was such a hit with locals.
Revealed: Tauranga's most common hours of the week to be burgled
And it's not what you'd expect.
Festival brings people together for good vibes
Thousands enjoyed the Good Vibes Mount Maunganui Winter Festival this evening.
It's okay to feel glum during wintry months
COMMENT: I'm giving you permission to be a lazy sack
Kristin Macfarlane: 'The gut-wrenching feeling of violation is the same'
Comment: I remember walking into my bedroom and it ransacked.
943 millionaires: Lotto celebrates 33rd birthday with $30m Powerball jackpot
Have you got your ticket for tonight's draw?
Million-dollar property market: Tauranga agents report an 'appetite for spending'
Revealed: Where the top five Tauranga sales are so far in 2020.
'Nightmare': How a walk on a beach ended in horror and heartbreak
'This was a tragic outcome for all of us'.
81-year-old tells the story behind his major cannabis-growing operation
'I'm old and frail and I just wanted to have a bit of better quality of life.'
Man caught with 12kg of drugs strapped to his body at Port of Tauranga
Tauranga drug importer jailed for more than four years.
Jo Raphael: Political nastiness is distracting us from real issues
COMMENT: Politicians need to shrug off the scandals and get down to real business.
Miles Art Awards - People's Choice up for public vote
The deadline looms for voting in the Miles Arts Awards' People Choice category.
'We are up against the clock here': Rates struck but wait continues for Govt funding
Tauranga City Council applied for more than $1 billion in Govt infrastructure funding.
Snapped! More than $2.5m in speeding fines issued to Tauranga drivers
Have you been snapped speeding behind the wheel?
Rates: 37 per cent of Tauranga properties have rates reduced
Are you one of the properties?
Good Vibes Mount Maunganui: All you need to know
The sixth of the nine stops will be at the Mount Maunganui Soper Reserve.
'Stunned': Mayor hits out after minister blocks reserve plan
Minister apologises after media learns of her decision before the council.
Jo Raphael: Local operators putting on a brave face
COMMENT: Local tourism operators are putting on a brave face
Man who fatally shot senior mobster gets sentence reduced
A man who shot and killed a Tauranga gang enforcer has had his jail sentence reduced.
'Extremely disturbing': Billboard vandalism becomes personal for MP
Damage included blacking out her eyes and drawing Nazi symbols.
Tauranga widow's big birthday tribute to late husband
His birthday would have been next Tuesday on August 4.
Kristin Macfarlane: The best version of yourself isn't drenched by mental pressure
Hundreds of people seek medical help every week for work-related stress.
$700k funding 'won't make a difference' - tourism operator
Across the Bay of Plenty, $2.4 million of funding has been approved.
Lucky shot: Tauranga photographer captures Comet Neowise
But if you want to see it with the naked eye, you are out of luck.