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Covid casualty: Jet boat operation closing for at least 18 months
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$5.6m to house Rotorua's homeless in motels for three months
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Elderly man robbed after leaving house without pants
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Local Focus: Waka experience a key to learning
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$40 million processing plant for Rotorua and jobs available now
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Man alludes to more victims in Facebook scam
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Inexperience and infrastructure costs blamed for local government dysfunction
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'We have lost a leader': Top trial lawyer Jonathan Temm QC dies
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'Boozy' business stuck in limbo due to epidemic notice
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Super-sized stay: A Lake Tarawera bach with space for the whole whānau
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Jo Raphael: Aucklanders who escape lockdown are putting us at risk
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Local Focus: Cousins world premiere held in Rotorua
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Destiny Church lashes out at critics after 'apostle' flees lockdown
Tamakis lash out at media following backlash.
Wastewater leaks into Lake Rotorua, swimming advised against
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Crown seeks maximum sentence for murder accused mum
Southern Thompson skipped trial for the murder of her young daughter and went on the run.
Bay's lockdown loss could top $6 million
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Not guilty pleas for former trust chairman in SFO case
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Cricket bat killing: 'Extraordinary' changes to accused's story, Crown says
John Kenneth Collins, 39, is on trial before the High Court at Dunedin.
Covid 19: Bay of Plenty business leaders and owners reeling
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How police plan to target gangs and guns in the Bay
Gun violence between gangs has led to police launching a nationwide operation.
Keeping it clean: Cleaning pros spill the tea on going rates, value for money and expectations
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Drugs and gangs: Problems revealed as more children put in emergency housing
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The reinvention of the Chow brothers - from the sex industry to property
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'Utterly offensive': Seymour taken to task on apartheid comparison
Act's David Seymour compared the new Māori ward legislation to apartheid in South Africa.