Education

$30k is being donated to Katikati charity

A Bay of Plenty organisation helping those with disabilities to fully integrate into the local community will receive a $30,000 grant from BayTrust which guarantees... Read More

Business backlash to parking concerns

In a move that has left local business owners in a Tauranga shopping plaza feeling blindsided, Tauranga City Council is proceeding with plans to remove roadside... Read More

Visa delays: Flight school enrolments plummet

Long wait times for international student visas have local flight training schools on the brink of collapse, Aviation New Zealand says. Chief executive Simon... Read More

Government changes to sex education

The union representing primary school teachers says there still has not been any consultation or guidance from the government over planned changes to the sex... Read More

Rewarding reading during school holidays

Tauranga City Libraries' Summer Reading Challenge is decades old and quietly one of Tauranga's most well supported programmes, with more than a thousand... Read More

The tasks of the Western Bay Summer Students

Creating maps, taking water samples and filming TikToks with the Mayor are just some of the tasks Western Bay of Plenty District Council's Summer Students have... Read More

It's Jamboree time for thousands of scouts

This New Year's weekend is not just the start of a new year for kiwis but the start of over a week away at a Scout jamboree for thousands of kiwi Scouts. On... Read More

350,000 books borrowed from Western Bay libraries

Young Western Bay bookhounds have sniffed out a Hairy Maclary classic as their top read for 2023. ‘Hairy Maclary, sit!' by Lynley Dodd was the top picture... Read More

Tauranga library summer reading challenge

One week in and Te Ao Mārama - Tauranga City Libraries' famous Kia Kaha te Pānui - Summer Reading Challenge has already recorded more than 750 registrations.... Read More

Truancy figures "incredibly disappointing "

Only 46 per cent of school pupils attended classes regularly in term three, one of the worst figures on record, with Māori and Pacific students worst affected,... Read More

Mother of five graduates with PhD

A mother of five teenagers this week graduates with a doctorate from the University of Auckland and a huge sense of achievement. Lucy Hardie's research, in... Read More

Graduate’s passion for rural medicine

A school visit from Waihi School to the University of Auckland's medical school planted the seed of medical graduate Kate Dunstall's passion for rural medicine. Kate,... Read More