This week marks five years since a local primary school incorporated te reo Maori lessons into its school radio station. National Maori Language Week sparked the idea among staff at Te Akau ki Papamoa Primary School to teach te reo Maori through its school radio station, Radio TAKP, said principal Bruce Jepsen.
A person has been seriously hurt in a crash on State Highway 2 near Katikati this morning.
A Mount Maunganui person was stunned into silence when they realised they won $19,000 from Lotto's Saturday night draw after buying their ticket at Paper Plus Mount Maunganui.
Tauranga hosted this year's New Zealand Duck Calling Championships, attracted 20 of the best callers from around the country - including 10-year-old Luke Spargo - to duel it out. Watch them in action, and reporter Allison Hess giving it a go, here.
Bay Steamers Lalakai Foketi and Dan Hollinshead reading When I grow up, I'm going to play for the All Blacks, to Greerton Village School students in the new Greerton Library.
Gemma Gilmore is the number one contender to win the New Zealand National Gymsport 13-14 age group tumbling title in September. If she can pick up the national title representing Bay of Plenty in Invercargill it will give her the three major events in one year, after winning the North Island and South Island titles last month. Gemma, who trains at Mount Maunganui’s Impact Gymsport Academy and is a Year 8 student at Tauranga Intermediate, has excelled in tumbling.
Police and ambulance are at the scene of a serious two car crash in Mount Maunganui.
Tauranga Girls' College students will today represent the Bay and act as defence counsel for the finals of the Secondary Schools' Mooting Competition.
Tauranga high school students get an inside view into the Bay's construction world as part of a BCITO big construction Tour.
Overnight floodwaters wash away truck on SH2 north of Katikati, as the town braces for high tide later this morning.
New Zealand Duck Calling Championships organiser Adam Rayner demonstrates the many ways a person can call for ducks ahead of this weekend's national competition.
We talk to the people at Cameron Rd's New Zealand Blood Service centre, where people regularly donate blood to an effort to help save lives. We find out why. Video/George Novak
People gathered at Comvita last night to hear a proposal for a film office to be established in the Bay of Plenty.
Tauranga helped themselves to a 46-7 win over an injury-depleted Greerton Marist side that still have top-four aspirations once they can get Joe Tupe, Joe Key and co back on the park.
Tauranga rubgy team Bethlehem College put up a spirited second half performance before succumbing 34-7 at home to the lads from Te Wharekura o Mauao. Watch them in action here.
Tracey Wallace-Hutchins decided to take an extra packed lunch box to her child's school so it could be given to any child who arrived at school without lunch. And now the challenge is on for others to take part.
Former Western Bay of Plenty and Tauranga Grey Power president Christina Humphreys explains why the organisation is taking a petition signed by 4000 people to Parliament in protest at proposed changes to the SuperGold Card.
Bay of Plenty Times photographer Andrew Warner provides insight to some of the amazing shots he's taken over the year for the newspaper and online.
Ever wonder how the photos that appear in the newspaper and online were captured? Bay of Plenty Times photographer Andrew Warner looks a selection of his favourite sporting photos.
This video provides an artist’s impression of what the civic heart could look like. More information at www.tauranga.govt.nz
Papamoa Bulldogs under-15 rugby team are the first Papamoa side to make a competition final.
Tauranga's population is growing, but the number of blood donors is declining. Staff and donors at the New Zealand Blood Service centre on Cameron Road talk about giving blood to save lives.
Te Whare Tauranga opens ready for three homeless families to move in on Sunday.
A fundraising page has been created for a 17-year-old Josh Laforteza, who has cerebral palsy, to raise the $4000 needed for a special wheelchair equipped to get onto the beach. Josh was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, microcephaly (smallness of the head) and severe developmental delay when he was about 4-months-old.
Heaving rain across the Western Bay of Plenty has cost nearly $1million in damages and repairs this month.
A couple who bought a house based on stunning sea views were shocked when they found out their neighbours were building a two-storey unit which would partially block their view.
Four cars collided on the west-bound lanes of the new Tauranga Eastern Link near Paengaroa.
A Kiwi great-grandmother who won 1 million pounds ($1.9 million) in the UK lottery has bought a new house and car within a day of returning home.
Spreadable bacon cooked up in a Papamoa kitchen is taking New Zealand by storm after former truck driver turned barbecue king Mike Jeffries stumbled on a winning idea.