06:30am Wed 02 Mar, 2022
Multiple arrests are being made as part of the pre-planned operation to remove protesters from Parliament. Police have been descending on Parliament from early... Read More
12:52pm Tue 01 Mar, 2022
There are over 1000 daily positive new cases of Covid-19 in the Bay of Plenty for the first time since the pandemic begun. The Ministry of Health has announced... Read More
08:00am Tue 01 Mar, 2022
A call is being put out through Tauranga and the wider Bay of Plenty to help businesses with staffing shortages. In response to the current Omicron outbreak putting... Read More
04:30pm Mon 28 Feb, 2022
The Government is removing self-isolation requirements for vaccinated travellers to and New Zealanders from the rest of the world can return from midnight this... Read More
01:22pm Mon 28 Feb, 2022
The Ministry of Health is reporting 14,633 new community case in New Zealand today. In it's daily 1pm update, the MOH says there are currently 344 people... Read More
07:00am Mon 28 Feb, 2022
The shift from MIQ to home isolation for vaccinated New Zealanders travelling from Australia starts in today. Airports are expecting thousands more passengers... Read More
06:45am Mon 28 Feb, 2022
Political pressure is mounting on the government to move faster on easing border restrictions as the domestic outbreak escalates. The number of new community... Read More
02:30pm Sun 27 Feb, 2022
Are you a home baker? Rise up Tauranga is calling on the Bay of Plenty community to provide fresh home baking as a way to show support for the front line staff... Read More
01:15pm Sun 27 Feb, 2022
There are 14941 new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health has announced. Of these, 812 new cases are in Bay of Plenty and 208 in Lakes. There... Read More
12:00pm Sun 27 Feb, 2022
A freezer and the use of a van have been donated to a Tauranga social service organisation that is stretching its resources to meet the increasing needs of the... Read More
11:00am Sun 27 Feb, 2022
New Zealand currently has one of the highest Omicron R numbers in the world, surpassing all 180 countries on a Covid-19 modelling map. The R number is the average... Read More
09:30am Sun 27 Feb, 2022
The past two weeks have seen the most difficult and demanding phase of the two years of the Covid pandemic for New Zealand's diagnostic laboratory workforce, says... Read More