Glass beer bottles, tennis and golf balls, a carpet, takeaway containers and a dead puffer fish: these were some of the items collected by 34 backpackers from Mount Maunganui beaches on Sunday.

Rising more than 700 feet over the aquamarine water, Mount Maunganui provides a picturesque ... The peninsula has paradisiacal beaches, gold-mining history, and plenty of summer fun.

Photography by Jereme Aubertin, Rambo Estrada and Guy Rencher. Things are feeling awfully common for the beginning of an east coast summer. Nothing major wants to pop up on the charts, but small ...

A large amount of organic waste, including logs, has also washed up on Mount Maunganui and Pāpāmoa Beaches. Tauranga City Council’s Spaces and Places Operations Manager, Warren Aitken ...

Mount Maunganui residents and visitors have told Tauranga City Council that improving air quality, and making it easy and safe to get around, are key as the area grows. Council has been consulting ...

New Zealand and Pakistan will face each other for one last time on this tour in the third and final ODI of the series on Saturday (April 5) at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui. The hosts have ...