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Local Focus: Cameron Luxton on Candidate Camera

Act candidate Cameron Luxton wants to take the politics out of infrastructure.

Local Focus: Jan Tinetti on Candidate Camera

Labour's Tauranga by-election candidate Jan Tinetti discusses the big issues on camera.

Local Focus: Sam Uffindell on Candidate Camera

National's Tauranga by-election candidate on why he's the person to replace Simon Bridges.

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: 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'.