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Waddell, Fletcher and Mosen win Bay speedway titles at Baypark

Champion Waddell still learning in late-model-style super saloon.

Otūmoetai Health Centre to get multimillion-dollar makeover

Improvements to be made to reception, patient waiting areas and nursing treatment rooms.

Jo Raphael: Lockdown anniversary brings back tough memories

OPINION: We’ve learned a lot about ourselves over the past three years.

Tauranga councils tussle over who should keep paying the near $1m bus stop security bill

The lack of satisfaction comes as buses expect to return to a full timetable.

'Hoping for an amazing turn out': Armageddon Expo gets under way in Tauranga

The event has been running in Tauranga for seven years.

‘Offensive’ Stop Co-Governance Tour to go ahead in Tauranga, for now

Tauranga council will continue to allow a controversial tour to use its venue, for now.

Laughter in lockdown: What the Lewis family learned in 2020

The Lewis family enjoyed a bit of comedy. Then in lockdown they put their pranks on video.

The city where people can't afford to work

‘We have so much work on and are so short-staffed'

Teen arrested after Bayfair jewellery store break-in

Police expect to make further arrests in relation to the aggravated robbery.

Horse dies and 2 injured after crash on SH2

Police were called around 6.30am.

Meth-addicted serial shoplifter punched supermarket worker in face

A prolific shoplifter with a methamphetamine habit has been sent to jail.

Murderous act of 'retribution' or 'reasonable' force in self-defence? Murder trial sums up

Defence and Crown lawyers close respective cases

$197m water treatment plant opens - but don't expect summer water restrictions to end

The new water treatment plant will supply 35,000 households

'Gigantic paperweight': Store owner says stolen $17k e-bike missing one key thing

Store owner puts 'bounty' out for information leading to thief's arrest.

Public feedback wanted on proposed new fees for council pool use, hall hire

Tauranga City Council adopted the draft user fees for Bay Venues at a meeting on Monday.

Carmen Hall: Rent-to-own better than state house

OPINION: Owning your own home should not be a privilege.

Coromandel highway slip: ‘If that one goes, we’re basically an island’

Waka Kotahi is closely monitoring an underslip on State Highway 25.

Murder accused suffered 'acute distress disorder', court told

Defence opens in murder trial.