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Local Focus: Bee ready for new travel card rollout

One card to rule them all? Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Local Focus: Bee ready for new travel card rollout

One card to rule them all? Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Whakaari / White Island hospital bills top $14m

Doctors' labour, skin supplies, drugs and intensive care facilities were some of costs.

National vows $31b to crush 'congestion crisis'

Plan includes another Auckland Harbour crossing and a four-lane expressway to Tauranga.

Bay represent! National front bench named

Nearly half of National front bench from of Bay of Plenty.

About 230 jobs to be created in Ōpōtiki after Tauranga investment in mussel farm

The processing factory was hoped to be up and running by early 2021.

Weather: 24 hours of heavy rain to batter Bay of Plenty

Downpours were already scheduled to hit the Upper North Island today.

Top Kiwi bands in One Love Festival line-up

There will be a clear Kiwi flavour at next year's One Love.

Dawn Picken: Want to keep customers happy? Don't make us wait

Businesses will continue nudging us to pay and stay away.

'Biggest fears': Council investigates reports of 'plume' near Rena

"We are extremely concerned," says a technical adviser for Motiti Island residents.

Whakaari/White Island survivor recalls skin falling off her hands

Survivor reveals the hurdles she has overcome during the last six months of her recovery.

'We've had a bit of a hiding': Tornado as Bay of Plenty lashed with wild weather

"Driving conditions will also be hazardous with surface flooding and poor visibility."

Jo Raphael: The creative ways people are remembering their loved ones

COMMENT: The ways ashes can be memorialised are endless.

Public transport challenge: Use buses while they are free

"We are in times where things are different ... We need to give this a try."

Go Local! Farrah's road trip spreading the love to the locals

Farrah's 'We Love You for Loving Local' road trip runs from June 23 to July 3.

Operation Silk: Defendants in court after police raids

The Mongols have been accused of being involved in six known shootings with other gangs.