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Local Focus: PM's day cheering Tairāwhiti
Prime Minister visits Gisborne to praise vaccinators.
Local Focus: Māori vaccination rate in Lakes DHB jumps after Covid case announced
Community Covid cases in Rotorua have led to a surge in vaccination rates for Māori.
Local Focus: Big surge in Māori vaccinations
A Covid case encouraged more people to get the jab.
Local Focus: Gisborne mums are hot competition for the Fittest Mums competition
Fit Gisborne mums are competing globally.
Local Focus: Gisborne's fittest mums
Gisborne mums are hot competition for the Fittest Mums competition.
Local Focus: Bay bus network refresh rolls out
New direct bus services linking Pāpāmoa, The Mount and Tauranga CBD go live.
Local Focus: Bay bus network refresh rolls out
New direct bus services linking Pāpāmoa, The Mount and Tauranga CBD go live.
Local Focus: Life lessons from Les - 103 not out
WWll veteran Les Morice has a peaceful recipe for a long and healthy life.
Local Focus: Life lessons from Les - 103 not out
WWll veteran Les Morice has a peaceful recipe for a long and healthy life.
Local Focus: Empowering women to succeed
Dress for Success client Demi-Lee achieved success. Made with funding from NZ On Air
Whanganui gardeners warming to bananas
Backyard banana growers in Whanganui are increasing
Local Focus: Whanganui's going bananas
Satisfied backyard banana growers reaping the rewards of planting just three years ago.
Local Focus: Success for Dress for Success
Demi-Lee Halbert is one of many Dress for Success success stories.
Local Focus: Is Tauranga ready for community spread of Covid-19?
"I don't think it's struck home how deadly this is," says Commission Chair Anne Tolley.
Local Focus: Is Tauranga ready for community spread of Covid-19?
Opinions on Tauranga's use of Covid health guidelines.
Local Focus: Tauranga teen's film crowned best
Bay of Plenty students dominate the International Youth Silent Film Festival awards.
Local Focus: Tauranga teen crowned best filmmaker
Bay of Plenty students dominate the International Youth Silent Film Festival awards.
Local Focus: Māmā, pēpi, whānau and vaccine
Learning about Covid-19 and the vaccine in a face to face wānanga.
Local Focus: Māmā, pēpi, whānau and vaccine
Wānanga about Covid and vaccination for Rotorua mums.
Local Focus: Art in the Garden sale means fingers crossed for fine weekend
The forecast is hot and humid for Art in the Garden - but take an umbrella just in case.
Local Focus: The adapting Hawke's Bay Farmers' Markets
How Hawke's Bay Farmers' Markets are adapting to Covid restrictions.
Local Focus: The adapting Hawke's Bay Farmers' Markets
How Hawke's Bay Farmers' Markets are adapting to Covid restrictions.
Local Focus: The Covid refugee carnival 'making things up as we go along'
Mahons Amusements isn't sure where it is taking its Ferris wheel next.
Local Focus: Second weekend of amusements at Whanganui Racecourse
Mahons Amusements isn't sure where it is taking its Ferris wheel next thanks to Covid cancellations.
Local Focus: Through the naked eye
Tā Derek Lardelli's Tīnana Exhibition at the Tairāwhiti Arts Festival.
Local Focus: Artist Tā Derek Lardelli brings Tinana exhibition to life
Tā Derek Lardelli's Tinana Exhibition at the Tairawhiti Arts Festival.
Boom to bust? Mānuka honey producers 'can't sell' some of their stock
Hundreds of tonnes of mānuka is now sitting in beekeepers' sheds, producer says.
Local Focus: Changing fortunes for beekeepers
Mānuka honey and growing pains for the honey industry.
Local Focus: Council hopes to create 'Olympic-quality' skatepark
Tauranga City Council wants to hear from locals who love skateparks.
Local Focus: Council hopes to create ‘Olympic quality’ skatepark
Tauranga City Council wants to hear from locals who love skateparks.
Local Focus: Heavy rains bring floods to Gisborne
Rivers and roads were swollen but that didn't stop kids having a splash.
Local Focus: Heavy rains bring floods to Gisborne
Rivers and roads were swollen but that didn't stop kids having a splash.
State of Emergency declared in Gisborne, Sponge Bay residents left without power
A month's worth of rain has fallen in just 24 hours, with homes under threat.