'Infighting', 'realistic rates': Minister's reasons for replacing council
'Good governance has not been demonstrated this electoral term.'
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Samantha Motion: When roads become bitumen battlegrounds
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Business Digest: Businesses encouraged to get financially fit for new era
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Eye fillet steak stolen, store damaged as butcher targeted again
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Tauranga cyclists to collect for foodbank via Santa run
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Why ketamine is being trialled as an antidepressant in the Bay
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Letters to the editor: Labour's economics an easy target
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Dawn Picken: Big Brother is watching
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Construction milestone in Bay Link project gets under way, delays expected
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Samantha Motion: Minister's move to sack council a bold one
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'Democracy has gone': Councillors hit back at minister's intention to replace them
The minister wants to appoint a commission to run the city.
Top cop says deaths of Bay of Plenty children will not be the last
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Tauranga Māori 'probably' underpaid as council votes on new remuneration rates
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Speed limit proposal: 'Nobody does 80km/h. There's a lot of skidding and horns blowing'
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Local Focus: Emergency services food run a success
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Three injured in triple car crash
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Crazy waste: Bags of dumped crayfish a mystery
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