Latest from Bay of Plenty

Pirates looking to clinch final playoff spot

Just one playoff spot is still to be decided in next weekend's final round.

Regions will be 'under-resourced': Staff 'blindsided' by proposed job cuts

'The impact on students could be quite severe' - employee.

Bayfair jewellery store burgled

Tools were used to enter the store.

Kai Co-op plan to address poverty and 'cut out the middle man'

'It is about addressing the duopoly that the supermarkets have.'

Flooding and slips throughout Bay of Plenty, 'more rain on the way'

Flooding was reported in Maketu, Paengaroa and Pikowai.

Revealed: The suburbs where everyone selling their home made a profit

First-quarter data also shows some sellers made hundreds of thousands.

Western Bay ratepayers face 7.04 per cent average rates increase

It comes as the council plans to upgrade "key community facilities".

Business Digest: How Ngāti Whakaue is supporting its entrepreneurs

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Tauranga Police appeal for help to find man who fled crash and may have jumped into estuary

The man has not been found and police are appealing for help.

Mark Lister: House prices have bottomed, but where might they go from here?

OPINION: Where the new 'normal' for mortgage rates might settle.

Lonely? How to make a new best friend in adulthood

While you can ask someone, “Are you single?”, there's no question, “Are you friended?”

'The lost, the lonely, the battered, and the bruised': The man fixing broken people

Poverty in Paradise: The team that takes on 'those who are in the too-hard basket'.

'He was ... going berserk': Families of teen vaping addicts speak out

Others say vaping 'ripped' a family apart and left a teen looking 'like death'.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Only luck has prevented more tragedies like Loafers Lodge

OPINION: Boarding houses were common in many New Zealand towns and cities after the war.

Premium Debate: Quiet quitting makes sense if extra effort only gets you more work

OPINION: Subscribers have their say.

From tailgating to trailblazing: The ultimate traffic hack for commuters

Opinion: Say goodbye to congestion - a solution to New Zealand's traffic woes.