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Rena: A decade after disaster

A decade after the disaster we revisit it to find out what has been learned.

Kiri Gillespie: Rena response could have and should have been better

OPINION: It seemed it was only thanks to thousands of volunteers the beaches were saved.

'The whole thing just stinks': Landlords selling up as tax rules bite

Doorway has opened for corporate rental identities 'who only care about the money'.

Canal tragedy: Coroner rules on cause of truck driver's death

John Paul's truck left the road, crashed through a fence, across a paddock and into water.

Local Focus: Meet the king of the sandcastle

Pāpāmoa sand sculptor shares his secrets to creating next-level sandcastles.

Tauranga wastewater results come back negative

Covid-19 was not detected in wastewater from Tauranga and Mount Maunganui.

Ex-cop prosecuted over botched castration of bulls in car park

The former cop is one of two men to be charged over the castrations.

The 90% Project: How close is your age group to 90% vaccinated?

First dose vaccinations in older Kiwis are more than 90 per cent almost everywhere.

'Not exactly a vote winner': Is it time to start taxing inheritances?

'Long story short we will have more old people than young people to collect tax from.'

Axed Covid contact tracing card trial cost Government almost $1m

The Ngongotahā contact tracing card trial was revealed to be more than $59k over budget.

Zespri on full alert as China finds Covid on a fruit sample

Zespri taking matter "extremely seriously".

One in five Bay Māori now fully vaccinated

Māori vaccination rates in the Bay of Plenty are behind the national figure.

New MIQ in Rotorua 'unlikely' but protest going ahead

The Covid-19 Response Minister says another Rotorua MIQ facility is unlikely.

Man admits inciting hostility towards Māori in video

A Pāpāmoa Beach man has admitted posting a video online inciting racial disharmony

'A long rolling kind of experience': Bay Kiwis in Melbourne react to 5.9 earthquake

Kiwis from the Bay of Plenty say Melbourne's buildings rocked and rolled.

We'll be there: Customers eager to support bakery hit by Covid scare

Uppercrust Bakery was named a location of interest.