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National's Tauranga by-election candidate on why he's the person to replace Simon Bridges.
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Heartbreak for Aotea Rugby Premiers at Dannevirke
Tamatea broke Aotea's hearts with a clutch 27-24 away win.
Local Focus: NZ Music Month - Virgo Sagittarius
Virgo Sagittarius perform two original songs for NZ Music Month.
Local Focus: The African call rings out
The launch of the Ubuntu African Society Bay of Plenty to promote connectivity.
Local Focus: Gisborne man won't take no for an answer
Given a dire prognosis Michael Thorpe is determined to prove it wrong.
Local Focus: Shake-up for Bay's public transport
Buses are out and MyWay on-demand large vans are in for Hastings residents from June 7.
Local Focus: Learning from big guns underwater
Significant funding boost for five young budding engineers for World Aquabot Competition
Local Focus: Boxing makes you 'a better person'
A chance to become a better person by stepping into the boxing ring in Whanganui
Local Focus: NZ Music Month - Steve Rendle
Steve Rendle takes to the mic and plays two of his original songs for NZ Music Month
Local Focus: Eliminating wool from sheep farming
Wairere is using genetic selection to produce sheep that grow hair, not wool
Local Focus: Tossing their way to Rēkohu
Gisborne Pétanque held the Were McClutchie tournament, raising money and awareness.
Local Focus: Motorcycles and men's mental health
Distinguished Gentleman's Ride dapperly raises funds in Tauranga
Art show immerses viewers into five different worlds
The virtual reality hit art show Terminus is on at Hastings City Art Gallery.
Local Focus: Breaking the silence - real talk
Real-life stories inspire people through Real Talk .
Parua Bay GAS station broken into for sixth time
The Parua Bay GAS service station in Whangārei Heads was burgled a sixth time on Sunday. Video / Supplied
Local Focus: Truckers in it for the long haul
Gisborne businesses band together during Covid-19 and the recent floods.
Local Focus: The good people that run Gisborne's school holiday fun
Gisborne's holiday programmes: Tōnui Collab, YMCA, Central Football and gymnastics club.
Local Focus: Rissington stumps up for Anzacs
A landmark Hastings tree becomes a striking Anzac sculpture of two back-to-back soldiers.
In war, history always repeats
Greytown's 100-year-old Royal NZ Navy Commander Richard Harding on his wartime experience.
Local Focus: The brighter side of life can be messy
Ancient Indian festival celebrates its sixth year in Tauranga.
Local Focus: Women's football on the rise
Pāpāmoa FC's female contingent is growing but a lack of facilities stymieing the sport.
Feed the need for tweed
Blackwell & Sons' National Tweed Ride is in Greytown on Easter Saturday.
City Assist helping keep Hastings CBD a better place for all
Hastings' City Assist transforms CBD; mayor gives intruder into video filming telling-off.
Local Focus: The Mauao Ranger: The man with the 'coolest job'
From managing Mauao's walking tracks to its ecology, meet the man with 'the coolest job'.
Local Focus: Masterton protests against civic centre plans
Over a thousand gather to protest against plans for a civic centre in recreational space.
Local Focus: Responding to period product pollution
DIY sanitary pads from recycled towels gets people talking and helps lift period stigma.
Local Focus: Fifties Forward to celebrate 30th anniversary
Gisborne's Fifties Forward fitness class soon to celebrate 30th anniversary
Local Focus: New library site opens after 120,000 books moved
Tauranga's temporary library - He Puna Manawa - officially opens for business.
Live: 15,250 community cases, 22 deaths, 830 in hospital
Director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield released the latest numbers at 1pm.
By God it's Dogs'n'Togs!
Featherston Dog Park Group hosted its third wet run of Dogs'n'Togs, and it was paw-some.
Local Focus: Meet the feminist sound system
DJ Laura Lush is the creator of Ninth Wave Sound, a feminist sound system.
Local Focus: Reporting amid the 'new normal'
Here's how Wairarapa Times-Age reporters have adapted to working from home.
Local Focus: Howard Morrison Junior takes up the mantle
Howie Junior lives life on his terms but honours his father Sir Howard Morrison's legacy.