Technology

Back to back rescues

Tauranga based Trustpower TECT Rescue Helicopter flew people from Whangamata and Glen Murray near Port Waikato, in back to back missions today. First rescue was... Read More

New kind of auction to debut in NZ

A Kiwi tech company helping the NBA's Phoenix Suns revolutionise the courtside experience is debuting its live drop auction technology in New Zealand after closing... Read More

Online app makes shopping easy

Countdown has launched an innovative new app designed to make its online grocery pick-up service even faster and easier for customers. The Countdown Click and... Read More

An electronic eye on meth cooks

It's a crisis that's been likened to the Rena, but more toxic. It's the methamphetamine problem, and one which Matua Parkinson, a Bay of Plenty District Health... Read More

Free Wi-Fi on Bayhopper buses

What do Donald Trump's tweets, council plans and online shopping have in common? You'll soon be able to check out all of them for free while riding the bus in the... Read More

New ticketing system for bus users

Passenger bus users will soon benefit from the implementation of a Regional Integrated Ticketing System. Horizons, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Hawke's Bay, Taranaki,... Read More

Omokoroa welcomes roll-out of high speed

Omokoroa is one of the most recent areas in the country to welcome the start of work to expand the government's Ultra-fast Fibre Broadband network to their community. Fibre... Read More

Putting the lid on 10,000m3

Tauranga city's newest reservoir at the Joyce Road treatment plant has been constructed with an aluminium geodesic dome roof - design easier to install and self-supporting,... Read More

The rebirth of Tauranga Airport

NZ8260 was on approach to Tauranga when a wee mite called Kristie burst into the terminal and made a beeline for the automatic doors to the observation area. She... Read More

Pivot exhibition will turn heads

Graduating students of Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology's Bachelor of Creative Industries degree will be putting their final body of work on display this Friday... Read More

Night bathed in day at Bay Oval

They look like something straight out of Pacific Rim, the American science fiction monster movie. Giant humanoid robots dominating the skyline down Totara Street.... Read More

New emergency alert system to be tested

A new way to let people know about an emergency is coming to a phone near you. That's the message from the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management,... Read More