'This is a very uncertain and difficult time': Government's response package welcomed by Bay business leaders
Tauranga tourism company will lose about $150,000 in one month.
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Claymark-connected companies in receivership
Clayton Avocados Ltd and investment property company MCRT Trustee Ltd are in receivership.
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Organisers 'treasure' Whangamata and 'want to protect' the people that live there.
Golden Princess passenger tests negative for virus
The cruise ship ban was an 'unprecedented event'.
Kawerau company fined $79K after woman loses finger
The 29-year-old lost one finger and injured three others in the accident.
Coronavirus: Most overseas arrivals still not getting health checks
New "toughest" rules are not evident yet at Auckland Airport.
Cyclone Gretel to bring rain - but not nearly enough
Gretel will bring rain to parched areas in drought but "it's a bit of a flash in the pan".
Local Focus: Tattoo show goes ahead without international stars
Just 48 hours to get home to Greenland. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Medical centres prepare for coronavirus onslaught
One medical centre says it has few resources to cope in the event of an outbreak.
'Dead quiet': Tauranga man speaks about life in quarantined Italy
The death toll from the virus in Italy topped 1000 today.
Remember the victims, not the 'black day': Tauranga mosque leader
A Tauranga Muslim leader says we should not mark March 15. Here's why.
Saima Anis: Do we have the courage to understand our differences?
COMMENT: We need to teach our children the power of acceptance and diversity.
Rotorua father denies murdering young son
A three-week jury trial has been scheduled for murder accused William Sio,
Man in custody tests negative for Covid-19
The man is understood to have recently returned from Hong Kong and was feeling unwell.
Waihī drowning: Body of missing teen found
The boy reportedly got caught in a rip on February 21.
'Inspiration': Eruption survivor's heartening recovery photo
Jake Milbank says it's good to be "breathing in some fresh air".
Tauranga transient back behind bars for 131st time
A well-known recidivist dishonesty offender has been jailed for more than four months.
'I'm fighting to be heard': Toxic mould in work car - man battles employer, ACC
"The next day I was driving the car and my vision deteriorated..." Waikato father tells.
Meet the first Kiwi band to top NZ singles chart since Lorde
But Shadbolt can't pinpoint what it is about In the Air that makes it so popular.
Cruise ship with no passengers to dock in Tauranga
The 286-metre Noordom will stay for five nights.
Missing elderly Tauranga man with 'slight dementia' found
Lewis Hewitt took a car from his rest home and left about 4pm yesterday.
Top cop says more fleeing drivers are targeting police officers
New stats show Bay of Plenty one of the worst areas for pursuits resulting in injuries.
Local Focus: Youth driving change in attitudes around Pride
"You-be-you is a premise we should all live by". Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Minister unaware youth charity staff charged before his visit
"The minister [Willie Jackson] had not met with them before or visited them since."
Woman run over at mall pedestrian crossing
The female pedestrian is in a serious condition in Tauranga Hospital.
Coronavirus: Stores feel 'tension and paranoia' of hand sanitiser panic buying
Health experts and shops are discouraging people from panic buying and hoarding items.
'Unbearable heartache': Mother's message to PM over ailing son
Lavinia Twose' son Izaeah needs a drug from the US which costs almost $500,000 a year.
Killed Paremoremo inmate's history of violence
Blake John Lee was in jail for brutal attack on partner.
$12m development set for opposite Tauranga Hospital
The medical and general office space has been a dream 20 years in the making.
$136,000 bonds 'withheld' by Tauranga rental management firm
Law breaches on bond and insulation issues bring $16,000 fine.
'A marathon and not a sprint': White Island pair face painful two-year recovery
Americans who survived the White Island tragedy have opened up about their recovery
Her body was found in Lake Rotorua. Her family think there is a sinister twist
Melissa Jones' death has been referred to the coroner and remains "unexplained".