Forget stadiums and pubs - hair and beauty salons are the next hit places to perform music and a Kiwi musician is doing it and donating all proceeds to charity.
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Tauranga City Council chief executive Garry Poole said staff, who were paid "no less than the minimum wage", were fairly remunerated.
A prime retail site on the outskirts of downtown Tauranga has attracted a last-minute rush of offers from developers.
An initiative to educate drivers rather than fine them has been welcomed by local road safety experts but will not be rolled out in the Western Bay.
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The Katikati Heritage Museum Charitable Trust wants to employ a professional museum manager and is seeking $100,000 over the next three years to cover wages.
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A jury has acquitted a Maketu man accused of being involved in the brutal beating of another man who had both eye sockets fractured in an attack.
Newmont Waihi Gold general manager Glen Grindlay said "we are generally happy, but didn't get everything we asked for."
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Kihikihi School and the Nga Kakano Kohanga Reo has a new waharoa at the eastern entry to their grounds.
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The Bay of Plenty Rugby Union is holding women's sevens talent identification camps with an eye to finding golden nuggets before the national tournament.
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I applaud the Matua residents who have chosen to boycott their local dairy as long as it continues to sell herbal highs.
I disagree with your last statement concerning being newsworthy Ruffruff, although I agree with the rest of it :-) : I think this article is very newsworthy. It proves that we do NOT need government and council in our lives to waste squillons of...
Brendan Manning tells how to reduce stress levels when shifting house
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the Jennian Homes Mother's Day run on Sunday more
Championship Pennants semifinals at the Mount Maunganui course on Sunday... more
The New Zealand Rugby Foundation Wheelchair Rugby Competition more
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Some examples of Kristina's art. more
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Eva the mascot cow is on her way back to Tauranga. more
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Te Puke takes home Oliver Cup. Bay of Plenty Times photographer Joel Ford... more
About 30 members of the World War II Historical Re-enactment Society acted out... more
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Readers photos of damaged caused by flooding around the Bay. more
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Bay Rodders' Nostalgia Drags - Photos: Colin Smith. more
Salvors are working through the final stages of cutting Rena's bow. more
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Air ballon ride at Pillans Point School in Tauranga - March 27th, 2013. Photos:... more
Animal-lovers know the importance of the health and well-being of their pets.
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Katie Boom is feeling the onset of winter more...
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A powerful earthquake has hit Russia's Far East with slight tremors spreading westwards as far as Moscow. Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said Friday the epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the quake registered 8.0 on the Richter scale. Emergency agencies in the Far East issued a tsunami warning for Sakhalin and the Kuril islands, but lifted it soon afterwards. Kolomiyets said the earthquake originated 600 kilometres underground and with the tremors so far down they have…
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