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Four people were taken to hospital with serious injuries.
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'Pushed to the brink': Hospo and tourism under pressure in build-up to Christmas
Meet the operators who have survived and some who have expanded.
Lucky winner pockets $5.5m in Powerball draw
The win comes just a week after a massive $24m Powerball prize.
'The last to go home': 96 and still Scottish country dancing
John Rowlandson normally dances about six times a week.
Person killed in SH29A crash in Tauranga
Traffic was diverted after the crash about 1km north of the Maungatapu roundabout.
Rates change coming after city gets go-ahead to borrow $175m via Crown entity
The funds will be raised through a Crown entity and repaid by levy on Tauranga properties.
Ngahi Bidois: Christmas is a time for self-reflection and rejuvenation
OPINION: At Christmas, we should spend time with ourselves.
Cruise ships: Daily reporting of Covid-19 cases critical, epidemiologist says
The comment comes as a major cruise company ups its Covid rules as cases surge.
Letters to the editor: Don’t throw rubbish out the car window
OPINION: Our readers have their say.
Top chefs share their recipe secrets for Christmas Day lunch
Your print-out and keep guide: Chefs and bartenders share their Christmas recipe secrets.
If we face a recession next year, it will probably be one of the milder ones
Even if we do face a recession next year, it will probably be one of the milder ones.
‘Quite overwhelmed’: Almost $80k raised halfway through Christmas appeal
More than $79,000 has been donated to the foodbank halfway into the Christmas appeal.
Celebrity rugby event in Mount Maunganui aims to help youth 'flying solo'
'Fun vibes and a kōrero' are the central themes for the outreach event at Blake Park.
Writer on life’s last chapter: ‘Live life while you can ... time is short’
The Tauranga mother and journalist is in palliative care.
Police investigating after reports more Te Urewera huts destroyed
Fires are believed to have occurred sometime between November 19 and 29.
‘Undemocratic’: Law Society decries Three Waters entrenchment addition
Barton's letter agreed with the academics who had previously aired their concerns.
Dawn Picken: '... time is so short and limited'
The journalist, author, and marathon runner shares her thoughts after moving into palliative care.
'An absolute treat': Pods of orca take Tauranga cruise
Seeing the orca was a brilliant way to start the day for some.
Orca visit Tauranga Harbour
Two pods of orca visited Tauranga Harbour on Friday morning. Video / Sophie Van Der Pol
“Ripping a heart out of the community”: Council to end kindergarten's lease
One of Tauranga’s oldest kindergartens is facing an uncertain future.
Problems at upmarket retirement village, chimneys stripped as delays hamper schist shipment from China
"About 60 or 70 chimneys that need cladding,"
Malachi's mum: 'Do not trust anyone with your kids who aren’t family’
Justice advocacy groups say the Government should be doing more to address child abuse.
Sonya Bateson: Rising one culture up won’t bring another down
OPINION: Our country’s past is our shared heritage and it deserves to be remembered.
'Mindless act': Kiwifruit vine vandalism sets back harvest three years, police say
Police are asking for any information leading to who is responsible.
Ten new homes for working whānau: 'We can call this our forever home'
The whānau, who moved from Ōpōtiki, said the home would help provide 'a new future'.
Pauanui locals pay $4m to move one street closer to the beach
“There’s still plenty of money” at the top end of the market.
'Vital' for survival: Plea to keep dogs away from nesting dotterels
The next few weeks are considered to be vital for the birds.
Links Ave partially reopened in time for Christmas
A controversial Mount Maunganui road closure will be partially removed
Schist happens: Watch out, Santa
Santa could contend with defective schist chimneys this Christmas.
Waihi Beach School students are little blue penguin guardians
Students are learning about protecting the little blue penguins of Anzac Bay.
Extreme violence: Appeal against sentence for vigilante beating dismissed
John Aitken's vicious and violent attack cost his victim the sight in his right eye.
‘We won’t take it lying down’ - Tauranga Croquet Club
Club members are 'disturbed and concerned' they may have to relocate.