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Rena: A decade after disaster
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Doorway has opened for corporate rental identities 'who only care about the money'.
Canal tragedy: Coroner rules on cause of truck driver's death
John Paul's truck left the road, crashed through a fence, across a paddock and into water.
Local Focus: Meet the king of the sandcastle
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Tauranga wastewater results come back negative
Covid-19 was not detected in wastewater from Tauranga and Mount Maunganui.
Ex-cop prosecuted over botched castration of bulls in car park
The former cop is one of two men to be charged over the castrations.
The 90% Project: How close is your age group to 90% vaccinated?
First dose vaccinations in older Kiwis are more than 90 per cent almost everywhere.
How Covid-19 wastewater testing works
Further wastewater results are expected on Thursday.
Luke Kirkness: My first vaccination went without a hitch. Here's my guide
Opinion: I got my first Covid-19 vaccination on Tuesday. Here's how you can do the same.
Photographer's dream! Amazing shots of orca in Mount surf
Mount Maunganui residents were treated to quite a show by a pod of orca whales.
Have symptoms? Get tested: 'Low-level' Covid-19 detection in Tauranga wastewater
Director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield made the announcement today.
'Devastated': Family mourn Kawerau mum, murder-accused's identity suppressed
A 20-year-old man accused of murdering a Kawerau woman has interim name suppression.
Revealed: The most popular stolen vehicles and it's not what you'd expect
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Kawerau homicide: Man, 20, charged with murder
A woman died from critical injuries yesterday afternoon in the Bay of Plenty town.
Homicide investigation launched in Bay of Plenty after woman's death
The woman had critical injuries and died shortly after.
'Not exactly a vote winner': Is it time to start taxing inheritances?
'Long story short we will have more old people than young people to collect tax from.'
Axed Covid contact tracing card trial cost Government almost $1m
The Ngongotahā contact tracing card trial was revealed to be more than $59k over budget.
Zespri on full alert as China finds Covid on a fruit sample
Zespri taking matter "extremely seriously".
One in five Bay Māori now fully vaccinated
Māori vaccination rates in the Bay of Plenty are behind the national figure.
New MIQ in Rotorua 'unlikely' but protest going ahead
The Covid-19 Response Minister says another Rotorua MIQ facility is unlikely.
Man admits inciting hostility towards Māori in video
A Pāpāmoa Beach man has admitted posting a video online inciting racial disharmony
'A long rolling kind of experience': Bay Kiwis in Melbourne react to 5.9 earthquake
Kiwis from the Bay of Plenty say Melbourne's buildings rocked and rolled.
We'll be there: Customers eager to support bakery hit by Covid scare
Uppercrust Bakery was named a location of interest.
Covid-19 vaccine: Free hāngī at drive-through clinic
The clinic is located at 33 Clayton Rd and is open every Sunday and Monday until December.
Squatters, overcrowding products of Tauranga's housing shortage
'No clear answers' to Tauranga's housing shortage and affordability crisis, says council.
Lockdown barely dents consumer confidence, young stay most upbeat
Survey finds many households said that their financial position has improved.
'A disaster': Why the costs of building a new home in Tauranga are skyrocketing
Some builders, contractors and homeowners have 'walked away' from new builds.