A tsunami siren will be tested in Papamoa on Friday, June 1, by one of two finalists in the tender process for the installation of permanent tsunami sirens.
Tauranga Mayor Stuart Crosby's offer to give up his mayoral car has failed to inspire similar cost-cutting measures from the Western Bay's other council leaders
Stuart Crosby is the city's leader, the council's ceremonial leader, the person who has to provide leadership for our elected councillors, and keep some of them in line.
Eight years, 110 world tour tournaments and 385 matches together and the Olympic dream of Tauranga beach volleyballers Jason Lochhead and Kirk Pitman comes down to one week in the coastal city of Fuzhou in China next month.