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Tauranga Lotto player wins $250,000

Tauranga has struck it lucky.

Festival brings people together for good vibes

Thousands enjoyed the Good Vibes Mount Maunganui Winter Festival this evening.

It's okay to feel glum during wintry months

COMMENT: I'm giving you permission to be a lazy sack

Kristin Macfarlane: 'The gut-wrenching feeling of violation is the same'

Comment: I remember walking into my bedroom and it ransacked.

943 millionaires: Lotto celebrates 33rd birthday with $30m Powerball jackpot

Have you got your ticket for tonight's draw?

Million-dollar property market: Tauranga agents report an 'appetite for spending'

Revealed: Where the top five Tauranga sales are so far in 2020.

'Nightmare': How a walk on a beach ended in horror and heartbreak

'This was a tragic outcome for all of us'.

81-year-old tells the story behind his major cannabis-growing operation

'I'm old and frail and I just wanted to have a bit of better quality of life.'

Man who fatally shot senior mobster gets sentence reduced

A man who shot and killed a Tauranga gang enforcer has had his jail sentence reduced.

'Extremely disturbing': Billboard vandalism becomes personal for MP

Damage included blacking out her eyes and drawing Nazi symbols.

Tauranga widow's big birthday tribute to late husband

His birthday would have been next Tuesday on August 4.

Kristin Macfarlane: The best version of yourself isn't drenched by mental pressure

Hundreds of people seek medical help every week for work-related stress.

$700k funding 'won't make a difference' - tourism operator

Across the Bay of Plenty, $2.4 million of funding has been approved.

Lucky shot: Tauranga photographer captures Comet Neowise

But if you want to see it with the naked eye, you are out of luck.

'Courage to do the right thing': Western Bay council praised in historic Panepane Point decision

This is a turning point ... It's a brave step in the right direction."

Elderly man's 'sophisticated' cannabis growing operation to buy wheelchair

Police found 364 cannabis plants at the man's Ōhauiti property.