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50m pool, supermarket, shops, 15,000 jobs and 11,000 new homes to be built nearby
Aussie pair to sue cruise ship company over family deaths on volcano
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Call to move Tauranga airport and racecourse to make way for houses
The group believes medium-high density housing will address housing crisis and traffic.
Rotorua school overwhelmed by KidsCan support this winter
KidsCan supports students in 829 schools with breakfast, snacks, hot meals and clothing.
Stewart Island child's Covid scare; PM reveals when you can get your jabs
PM unveils vaccine rollout scheme - when you can get your Covid jabs.
Rugby league legend and ambassador 'saddened' by brawl
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'Kids, kaumātua getting headaches': Marae still on quest for industrial neighbours to move
Community claim they are still suffering despite given the all clear.
'Trail of injured people': League match ends in 'all-out brawl'
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One Love 2022 line-up to feature 12 international acts
The first line-up has been named, with further acts to be announced later in the year.
Dame Georgina Kirby described as a 'great wāhine leader'
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Local Focus: Long-term plan hearings begin
Commissioners meet the community on their own whenua. Made with funding from NZ on Air.
Police release name in boating tragedy
The man died after a small boat capsized in the river mouth on Saturday.
Driftwood: Pup grabs bizarre beach bounty
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Gangster grill! Rival gangs give out free sausages in Rotorua
Three gangs were spotted working together for a common cause.
Mountain bikers found 15 hours after going missing
Two people were missing from Sunday evening.
'People can live well until they die': Hospices opt out of assisted dying
Hospice's philosophy and aim is to neither hasten nor postpone death.
Hospital not aware of 'gang fight' but Bridges sticking to his story
Bridges claimed "patched gang members had taken over the entrance" to hospital.
River drama: One person dead after dinghy capsizes on Kaituna River
Two people were pulled from the river mouth along the Bay of Plenty coastline at 11:45am.
'It's too late': Diabetes leaves woman blind in one eye and on dialysis
'I bawled my eyes out, I was so upset'.
Fears tourism will die in Rotorua if housing crisis left to grow
Are visitors missing out on beds because the homeless are taking them?
Local Focus: School lunch volunteers do it for the kids
Volunteers like Judith are the backbone of Ka Pai Kai. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Provincial Growth Fund sees Te Waiiti marae thrive
Nearly $100 million is being injected into marae nationwide, creating 3100 jobs.
Jo Raphael: Stench of racism in the air
OPINION: It's time to call out the racists and educate them about their ignorance.
'Lifelong trauma': NZ sexual harm offences at five-year high
The figures for the first three months of 2021 reflect what support services are seeing.
Ending period poverty: Free product roll out in BOP schools
'You just need them, it is like having toilet paper'.
Kawerau mill closure: 'Generations of people worked at that mill'
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Local Focus: Baypark prepares for Armageddon
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'Fiercely loyal' former Silver Fern Tilly Hirst mourned
New Zealand Sports Hall of Famer Tilly Hirst has died at the age of 79.