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When Tyler King set off for Timaru to play the South Island under-19 golf tournament last weekend, he had high hopes of making the top five in the under-19 age group and the top two in the under-17 category.

Sport

Golf: King, 15, takes title

Much to my delight, our local Asian food store has diversified.

Recipes

Spice up your mealtimes (+recipes)

A portable pool has been established in the Bay of Plenty for the first time in a bid to reduce the number of Maori drownings by teaching water survival skills to young rural-based Maori.

News

Pool a tool in battle to reduce Maori drownings

About this time every year you might see strange-looking machinery rolling slowly along the main roads around Hawke's Bay.

Rural

Great vintage in the making

Trent Rippey was oh so close to pulling off a memorable personal double during the school holidays.

Sport

Sailing: Team just fail in bid for double

Tauranga wakeboarder Darren Bishop's annual trips abroad have paid dividends with his naming in the New Zealand team to travel to the world championships in South Korea in August.

Sport

Wakeboarding: Bishop stoked to be part of team

According to Chinese medicine, the forehead is closely linked to the digestive system, and the area between the eyebrows is linked to the liver.

Lifestyle

Health: Face your health issues

With rising power bills and winter fast approaching, now may be the right time to consider harnessing solar energy to reduce your household energy costs.

Business

Solar sense

Come on Papamoa, let's get behind our local surf lifesavers in their bid to replace the very tired and dilapidated building they operate from.

Opinion

Richard Moore: Lifesavers deserve new HQ

A $6.7 million stormwater scheme in Matua could be fast-tracked by Tauranga City Council after properties were hit by flooding 17 days ago.

News

Floods may speed up stormwater works

Tech-savvy Fish & Game rangers have expressed disappointment at the number of Bay of Plenty and East Coast hunters breaking the rules.

News

Rangers disappointed with duck-hunting rule-breakers

Like the advert for the chocolates says: What do you bring to a party when the host says, "Just bring yourself"?

Lifestyle

Quench: Sparkling blend celebrates the ocean

Accidents in the home injured more than 50,000 people in the Bay of Plenty last year - at a cost of $41 million.

News

Bay home injuries cost $41m

For the past two years I've been looking after a cat colony that's been established by people dumping their unwanted cats.

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need help from understanding local cat lovers

The Primary Industries ministerial portfolio is a large, challenging one. For Horowhenua farmer and Otaki MP Nathan Guy the first few weeks on the job have been hectic, with the most severe drought since the 1940s striking the North Island and parts of the South, reports Felicity Wolfe

Rural

The farming Cabinet: Who you need to know

Purpose-built safe buildings are being considered as part of Tauranga's overall tsunami plan.

News

Tsunami safe refuge considered for Tauranga

When I was a style bunny, my mantra was always to "put a pot plant in front of it", which I figured would cover up any decor disaster without costing much.

Lifestyle

Gardening: Ready to rock

Tauranga might have soaked up nearly two-and-a-half-times its normal rainfall for April but the city was still the sunniest and warmest of New Zealand's main centres in a summary of a month of extremes.

News

Tauranga sunniest centre as April goes to extremes

As the last vestiges of what has been a languid, lingering summer disappear from sight, perk yourself up with the promise of a winter plunge in the South Pacific.

Lifestyle

Travel: Savour Samoa's small-town tempo

Shotguns, decoys and camouflage paint are being dusted off by local duck hunters in preparation for this weekend's launch of the annual duck hunting season.

News

Launch of annual duck hunting season

Te Puke's Happy Times Childcare and Preschool went to sea recently, continuing their exploration of all things wonderful in the Bay of Plenty.

News

Harbour cruise for youngsters

Tauranga can expect its first real bite of winter this weekend but a seasonal outlook for the cooler months reveal the cold blast will be short-lived.

News

Icecream treat as mild winter forecast

Work has begun on sealing Te Awamutu's Alexandra Street, the final stage in the upgrade project. The sealing work will take several weeks.

News

Final stage of major project under way

A project to clear the Mangapiko Stream between Pirongia and Te Awamutu, that began in 2006, will continue with two major plantings over winter.

News

Major plantings set for stream clean up project

Lake Rotorua is an inspiring story of farmers, the community and local council doing their bit to get the lake's water quality going in the right direction. As a result it has hit agreed water quality targets decades before it was thought possible.

Rural

Working together gets results

The Department of Conservation is asking the public to report any sightings of southern right whales along the coast this season.

News

Whale sightings wanted

As an event programme commemorating the 1864 Battle of Gate Pa is launched, Pukehinahina Trust project director Buddy Mikaere said past differences should now be forgotten.

News

Battle of Gate Pa inspires hope for future

Tauranga racer Ben Thomasen, a newcomer to offroad racing, has thrown down a challenge to the northern race teams in the 2013 New Zealand Championship - catch me if you can.

Sport

Off road racing: Thomasen sparkles

The development of a satellite city at Papamoa East could usher in a new era of sewage disposal.

News

New sewerage system gains approval

Baypark Speedway produced a racing surface full of vicious ruts and deep holes for its season finale on Saturday night.

Sport

Speedway: Standring wins 101st feature race

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