Local Focus: What do candidates say are Tauranga's big election issues?
Candidates call out growth, roads and the Covid response. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
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Local Focus: What do candidates say are Tauranga's big election issues?
Candidates call out infrastructure and Covid recovery. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Who is Angie Warren-Clark, Labour candidate for Bay of Plenty?
Labour candidate Angie Warren-Clark's election profile. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Hundreds of teachers' jobs at risk as foreign students dwindle
Banning foreign students may cost hundreds of teachers' jobs.
Local Focus: Tauranga candidates talk tough on law and order?
Is it as simple as more in prison means safer streets? Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Tauranga candidates talk tough on law and order?
Is it as simple as more in prison means safer streets? Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Toilet cam: Mum horrified at cameras in second school's bathroom
School says the cameras are focused on the washbasins and not inside the cubicles.
Why Māori medium education is 'nothing short of extraordinary'
"We all have a responsibility to ... ensure our language continues, survives and thrives."
Encounters with strangers: Why we need them
We need each other, even when we don't know each other.
Arohanoa Artistry - combining te reo, culture and business
The cultural influence of Arohanoa Mathews' work is obvious at first glance.
Zespri: Bay kiwifruit growers reap $1.55 billion in returns
Business leaders say kiwifruit returns will bolster Bay of Plenty economy and confidence.
NZ festivals aim to strengthen Māori culture by promoting te reo
Maori Language Week: One Love and Bay Dreams to further support promotion of te reo Māori.
Local Focus: Tauranga candidates defend their credibility
Which party is best-placed to lead NZ out of recession? Made with funding from NZ On Air.
'We said no': Advance NZ wanted to join NZ First, Winston Peters says
Peters said the reasons would be 'obvious to any sensible, sane, rational person'.
'Pretty scary': Flames climb above trees in Whangamata fire
The fire has closed the road meaning a late start to school for local pupils.
NZ's most mispronounced places, and what to do about it
'If we don't pronounce them correctly we lose the whakapapa, the stories behind them.'
Local Focus: Business or the environment – what's more important for Tauranga candidates?
Some Tauranga candidates won't pick one over the other. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Business or the environment – what's more important for Tauranga candidates?
Some Tauranga candidates won't pick one over the other. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Māori Party wants NZ renamed Aotearoa, all cities to take Māori names by 2026
Māori Party candidate for Waiariki Rawiri Waititi has announced a policy for Te Reo Māori.
Tauranga Primary School aims to normalise use of te reo Māori
Māori Language Week 2020: Kia kaha te reo Māori.
'Dirty, smelly': Council orders company to stop operating kiwifruit worker accommodation
The facility allegedly failed to comply with aspects of the building code requirements.
Tauranga's biggest property deal: Bob Clarkson sells $200m worth
The man who defeated Winston Peters still climbs his digger daily.
A community hijacked: PM revisits Whakaari / White Is tragedy
Today is Ardern's third day campaigning in the Bay of Plenty.
The PM, a blanket and an 11-year-old boy
Ardern was visiting the Māori housing development.
Comanchero raids: Drug smuggler to give evidence against gang president
Money handler at 'heart of the case' to give evidence against Comanchero gang president.
He started working for Farmers at age 17. Fifty years later he is still there
Graeme Walker started working at Farmers in 1971.
Anti-lockdown protests: 'Fight for your rights and freedom'
Child protester clutched a sign depicting PM Jacinda Ardern as Adolf Hitler.
'They did everything right': Coastguard praises rescued boaties
A Coastguard skipper has praised the actions of a pair stranded at sea.
Winter 2020: NZ's warmest on record
'By 2040, we might be looking back at this as a normal winter.'
Eastern Districts looking for repeat result in final
ED face off against long time rivals Katikati in reserve grade final.
Calls for council to be replaced as $350k review budget signed off
Ratepayers would be 'horrified' at paying the cost of governance failure, says councillor.
Pistols and pursuits: Series of crimes 'driven by addiction'
A recidivist fleeing driver who rammed two police cars has received a hefty jail sentence.
Review team for 'dysfunctional' council could cost ratepayers $350k
Team could stay for 10 months, but council votes for earlier 'off-ramp' opportunity.
Top traffic cop: 'We are sick of picking up dead people off our roads'
The district's 2020 road toll already stands at 13, two deaths short of the 2019 toll.