A Tauranga barber will travel the length of the country to promote Lifeline and stop the stigma surrounding mental health. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

"Who is you, man?" - a question posed to the protagonist of Barry Jenkins' latest feature film, Moonlight. Issues of "identity" are

The literary heart of England has just been celebrating a milestone, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's legacy. Stratford-upon-Avon

Each week Greg Bruce challenges a chef to make him lunch in less than 10 minutes.

A fun and creative way to keep your children entertained at the tail end of the school holidays is the popular Tauranga Art Gallery

The folk music hoedown of the year is happening this weekend when Albi & the Wolves perform at Mount Maunganui. The band is unusual

Look to the heavens if you want to be entertained this weekend. A array of 30 aircraft, including classics manufactured as early

Turn back the clock a few centuries and experience a glimpse of life in medieval times when history is retold not with dry facts

As she did back in 2001 with her second album Come Away with Me, Norah Jones is channelling the classic jazz artists who first inspired

Meet the Tauranga dragonboat team with a special bond. All the women have had partial or full mastectomies. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Keeping the wedding of the year under wraps was "crazy hard" for Kellie Taylor who can now finally share that she designed and made Gemma Flynn's bridesmaid dresses.

What happens when a town triples in size overnight? Made with funding from NZ On Air.

With the wedding of the year expected to commence soon, there is one facet that has almost everyone rapt: Gemma Flynn's dress.

Lion is directed by a relative newcomer to the feature film set, Garth Davis, who has taken the reins of bringing the seemly impossible

If it seems like a long time since Sting delivered a rock album, it is. Mr Sumner was the mainstay as the bassist, singer and primary

day one, and we were sitting outside the Occidental pub in Vulcan Lane enjoying a pilsner. The Occidental and its neighbour, The

The Department of Internal Affairs' list of top 10 boys' and girls' names for 2016 shows little change in the top three choices.

BASED ON THE SUCCESSFUL video game series of the same name, Assassin's Creed is another attempt by a studio to transfer onto the bigger

by Kiri Gillespie FUN DAY OUT: Groom-to-be Grant Edwards spent much of his stag party at the Tauranga Races in a ''pretty comfortable''

It was 1972 - a summer of sun, sand and ferries between Tauranga and the Mount - when a couple of tweens first locked eyes on each

RANDOM: An entire swimming pool was listed on Trade Me with a $1 reserve. It was the most viewed item for the Bay of Plenty. Photo/supplied

In Passengers, Norwegian director Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) has directed a hotly anticipated summer flick, that from reports

'Tis the season to consume more alcohol than normal, but the throbbing head that follows is not so festive. Here's how to avoid a bad hangover.

A story breaking the news of a body which washed up on Mount Maunganui beach has been the most viewed item on bayofplentytimes.co.nz

It's been a helluva year with an avalanche of bad news for music devotees, with the death of Prince, Leonard Cohen, Glenn Frey, Leon

Mount Maunganui was the second most inquired about holiday destination for Kiwis in 2016, according to analysis of Trade Me's Holiday

The 'Naki' might have outstripped Queenstown in Lonely Planet's annual thumbs up to the world's hottest spots, but Queenstown deserves

It took an injury and a push from his fiance to propel him into a career in fitness and now he has helped his partner lose 16kg in the lead up to their wedding.

There are travel writers who roam the edges of the world, explore jungles thick with mosquitoes and parrots, ride on rafts and camels

Losing weight didn't just change Chris Seymour's life, but ignited her interest in helping others achieve what she had achieved.