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Car catches fire after crashing into tractor

One person has moderate injuries.

Same patch of lawn for 68 years: Story of the campground

Leonie and Lindsay Tisch cannot get enough of the Mount Maunganui campground.

White Island disaster: Mum's bedside vigil for surviving daughter

Father and daughter Paul and Stephanie Browitt were severely injured in the eruption.

Tauranga Half: Course record obliterated

Braden Currie's Tauranga Half course record has been beaten by a large margin.

Local Focus: Life between the flags

A day in the life of a lifeguard. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

'Like a war zone': Bay of Plenty woman escapes Aussie bush fires

''When we walked back we didn't expect to have a house.''

Best of the best: Tauranga's most expensive and most affordable suburbs revealed

Mount Maunganui's median value was $953,400.

The Interview: Keeping ahead of the growth curve with Zespri chief Dan Mathieson

Fluent in Japanese helps the industry veteran

'Together we will get through this' - Whakatāne one month after eruption

The eruption left the community reeling and for many the grief remains.

'Not giving up': Badly burned White Island guide month on

Kelsey Waghorn is a fighter. 'She's just digging deep'.

White Island: Middlemore Hospital resumes elective surgeries

"This is a long-term healing process, and for many of them it will take years."

White Island a 'memorial' for heroic tour guide killed saving others

Whakaari tour guide Hayden Marshall-Inman's family remember his heroics and generosity.

Tauranga Bridge Marina situation resolved

Armed police, police negotiators, St John and Tauranga Harbourmaster were involved.

'It still hurts': Father of murder victim on killer's prison release

Dave Gunn says he'll be off to the pub the moment the man who killed his daughter dies.

Local vet nurse heading over to help with bush fire relief

The 23-year-old was heartbroken to see the destruction the blazes had caused.

Summer catch-up: Henry Makene on 'running through grief'

Henry and his mother, Tilly, were in the Hollie Snell crash, where Tilly lost her life.