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'No such thing as a safe seat': Waiariki candidates hit ground running in last weekend

The pair both put on a show at Waiata in the Pa, a suicide awareness event in Ngongotahā.

Opinion: Housing crisis paints bleak future

Opinion: Owning a home appears to have become the impossible dream for many.

Firefighters spend hours battling blazes near Rotorua, Paengaroa

The Rotorua fire was impacting state highway traffic.

Kristin Macfarlane: Unemployed Kiwis need to plug the critical kiwifruit labour shortage

OPINION: People who think orchard work is beneath them need to get over themselves.

Election 2020: Labour denies being worried about losing Waiariki seat

Poll shows Tāmati Coffey is 12 points ahead of the Māori Party's Rawiri Waititi.

ACT announces Build Like the Boomers strategy

ACT leader David Seymour made the announcement while in Tauranga today.

Kristin Macfarlane: Community needs to show no tolerance for society's unwanted

OPINION: Our bus drivers, school children, elderly, women deserve to feel safe on buses.

Charge dismissed for woman who snuck into Sudima Hotel

The Tauranga woman was seen on the grounds of a Rotorua managed isolation hotel in August.

Jo Raphael: Glo Festival another victim of Covid-19

OPINION: Large events are not worth the risk to some organisers.

Kristin Macfarlane: Children spending days hungry and cold is heartbreaking

OPINION: Children can't thrive if they don't have enough food or warm clothing.

Bryan Gould: America's democracy is under threat

OPINION: The world will pay the price if the flame of democracy is snuffed out in the US.

Te Arawa Fisheries adds international expertise

The appointments are expected to strengthen the board's connection to its kaupapa.

Kristin Macfarlane: 'I was alive but I wasn't living'

Comment: I couldn't even recognise myself anymore but had no idea how to fix that.

Dawn Picken: Decluttering can improve mental health

COMMENT: The case for decluttering: disposing of junk can improve your mental health.

Severe weather warning still in place for Bay of Plenty

Between 9 am and 5pm, 50-80mm of rain was expected in the Eastern Bay of Plenty ranges.

'Bawling my eyes out': Baby Daxton fights for life after four brain surgeries

''Half of his brain was the normal grey colour and half of it was real black.''