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OPINION: What we choose to give the people we love and appreciate should spark joy.
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'Serious frustration' over state highway upgrade delays
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Talented homegrown footballer Charlie Beale off to Fifa U20 World Cup
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Ute drives into estuary in Tauranga
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Berm parking crackdown: Council starts issuing $40 fines, warnings
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Councils get share of $350m transport package
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Lucky winner pockets $5.5m in Powerball draw
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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'.
Damning review into Malachi Subecz murder finds agencies could have done more
The Government agrees to some changes, but shies away from mandatory reporting of abuse.
Tauranga rental prices at 'all time high' as single mum moving faces $200 increase
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Opinion: It's free but we don't take advantage like we should
OPINION: It falls from the sky but I don't think we take enough advantage of it.
The mow down: Looking after region's 2200 Eden Park's worth of lawn
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Tauranga plane crash: 'I would be buying a Lotto ticket if I were him', witness says
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A hut protected by a court ruling has burnt down.
'Not a hate crime': Arsonists who torched LGBTQ+ drop-in centre sentenced
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Carmen Hall: Pay more on your mortgage if you can
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Waka Kotahi to partially pay for Bay of Plenty road repair
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Bay builders' work recognised at national awards
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'No-brainer': Three-time cancer survivor calls for changes to travel assistance scheme
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