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Road contractors will be pausing work from midday on tomorrow, December 22 to January 8, but motorists travelling through 17 Bay of Plenty roadwork sites...

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Increasing road tolls are the least of the truck sector's worries

A Bay of Plenty company's been fined 360-thousand dollars for its role in a dust cloud that spread across a motorway, causing a crash that killed a driver

Tauranga police are on the lookout for two people who fled from a checkpoint overnight and crashed in spectacular fashion.

New bikes for Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Matai 19 Apr, 2021 01:34 AM 2 minutes to read Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Matai head students Himene Bidois-Ahomira and Wiremu Wihapi-Priest and their school mates with the new bikes bought with a grant from Sport Bay of Plenty. Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Matai head students Himene Bidois-Ahomira and Wiremu Wihapi-Priest and their school mates with the new bikes bought with a grant from Sport Bay of Plenty. Stuart Whitaker is editor of the Te Puke Timess...

Western Bay of Plentys road toll climbs, with 17 in 2020 and one in 2021 8 Jan, 2021 06:00 PM 6 minutes to read The number of people who died on Tauranga and Western of Bay roads in 2020 rose to 17 after a grim few months, recording the highest number of road deaths in the wider Bay of Plenty. Thats 17 families whose loved ones never made it home, despite police ramping up their enforcement measures and the Covid-19 lockdown being in force from March 25 to April 26. This compa...

In my first post-election column a few weeks back, I said that one of my four priorities for Tauranga was transport. Tauranga is still a great place to live but there’s no denying it’s gotten harder in recent years and a big part of this is getting around. When my family and I moved from the Mount to the city side of town a few years back I told myself it didn’t matter because I would still be able to drive over in a handful of minutes for a walk up Mauao. Of course, that’s no longer tr...