Entertainment

Strike player wins $400,000 

One lucky Strike player from Auckland will be having a great week after winning $400,000 with Strike Four in Saturday night's live Lotto draw. The winning... Read More

Pocket Watchers win Rotorua final

Pocket Watchers from Taupo-Nui-A-Tia-College took out this year's Rotorua regional Smokefree Rockquest final at Sir Howard Morrison Centre on Friday night. The... Read More

Tauranga parks take top honours

Tauranga has proved it knows how to play, with four wins at the 2025 Recreation Aotearoa Parks Awards in Auckland this week. Tauranga City Council walked... Read More

The perfect place to plan your wedding!

Walking into 2025's Bay of Plenty Wedding Show offers the chance to see, touch, smell and taste everything that could help you plan one of the most memorable... Read More

Tauranga aircraft museum turns 20

What we now know as the bustling classic aircraft museum in Mount Maunganui was once just an idea in pilot Andrew Gormlie's head 21 years ago, when he still... Read More

What's on: Youth Fest, sensory play, garage sale

Good morning and welcome to Saturday. Ko te ra tenei i hanga e te Ariki. Ka koa tatou, ka koa hoki ki reira. MetService is forecasting a fine day with cloud... Read More

Sky-high excitement for auction

Model aircraft are starting to fill up sheds around town - and Tauranga Model Aircraft Club members are starting to froth. The club's annual auction fundraiser... Read More

Schools get tickets to groundbreaking show

Tauranga school students are being gifted tickets to a world-class, groundbreaking show in their own town this August - thanks to Baycourt Community & Arts Centre. The... Read More

Dance Competition returns with 1000 dancers

Project Hip Hop Dance Competition returns to Mercury Arena Baypark this King's Birthday Weekend, bringing more than 1000 young dancers together for a two-day... Read More

REVIEW: Symphonia’s performance wows audience

The Bay of Plenty Symphonia is to be congratulated for an outstanding Mother's Day concert at Holy Trinity Church on Sunday, May 11, writes local music director... Read More

Hobbiton Movie Set receives Guinness World Record

Hobbiton Movie Set has scooped up a world record. The 5.5-hectare set of Sir Peter Jackson's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings movies, near Matamata... Read More

Rocket Man vs Piano Man in Tauranga!

Hit tribute show Elton John vs Billy Joel is back for an epic 13-stop, 2025 national tour - and now it's Tauranga's turn! Yes folks, it's time to sing your... Read More