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Invercargill mayor returns to hospital after weekend stroke
4 Jul 2025Clark is recovering from a minor stroke.
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Pensioner with no power in caravan for six years finally gets new home
4 Jul 2025Steven Connelly, 67, spent years on a waitlist.
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Far North Mayor calls on New Zealanders to vote for Māori wards in October
4 Jul 2025On 11 October polling will close at 42 councils on whether to continue with Māori wards.
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MP Maureen Pugh pitches one-stop-shop for mining consents
3 Jul 2025The West Coast Tasman MP has weighed into the campaign to improve waiting times for miners needing resource consents and other permits.
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Frustration grows over two-year road works 'mess'
2 Jul 2025Works on a Auckland street are expected to drag on due to delays.
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‘Scary stuff’: Locals on crash corner fear it will take a death to get it fixed
3 Jul 2025Locals on a busy Tauranga street fear someone will die before anything substantial is done to improve safety on a bend notorious for crashes.
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Auckland pastor convicted, church fined for unsafe building
2 Jul 2025The church and community centre continued to be used for gatherings, even after being slapped with a dangerous building notice.
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'Shocked': Owner hit with $1400 fee to have three dogs
1 Jul 2025The consent fee was on top of the three charges of $90 to register each dog.
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Auckland's new dog rules: What you need to know
30 Jun 2025Updates are being introduced on where and how dogs can be walked throughout the Auckland region.
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Matariki pou whenua unveiling marks milestone for marae's cyclone rebuild
25 Jun 2025"It's emotional for us because it is a long time coming," a marae trust official says.
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She’s moved 14 times since toxic flooding forced her out – now she has a place to call home
30 Jun 2025A Wairoa wahine forced out of her home by Cyclone Gabrielle's toxic aftermath has finally found somewhere she can call home.
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Spring Creek resident confronts council boss in soggy showdown
29 Jun 2025Sixty homes in Spring Creek were evacuated after heavy rain lashed the top of the South Island.
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Dog's bite pulls Wairoa great-grandmother off mobility scooter
28 Jun 2025Carol Stewart, 63, was flown to Hawke's Bay Hospital with serious bite wounds to her legs and arms after the attack.
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Rotorua library service delivers 80,000 books to the needy
29 Jun 2025In the five years to April, it issued 81,906 books, eight DVDs, 1018 magazines, 257 memory aids and 1234 talking books for a total of 84,423.
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Invercargill mayor Nobby Clark criticises own council of being too risk averse
29 Jun 2025His comments follow the organisation revealing it spent more than $7.3 million on consultants in less than three years between July 2022 and December 2024.
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'Dangerous spectacle': Health experts push for Run It Straight ban
27 Jun 2025Three frontline medical professionals issued the warning in a hard-hitting editorial published today in the New Zealand Medical Journal.
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Tauranga’s rates hike approved amid protest
27 Jun 2025The approved 9.9 percent increase is down from the 12.5 percent initially proposed.
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We haven’t sold out: council to clarify seabed mine stance
24 Jun 2025Taranaki Regional Council is going public against accusations it has sold out to would-be seabed miners Trans-Tasman Resources.
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Could Splash Planet be a playground over winter?
25 Jun 2025Last season the park ran at a loss of $326,000 so the council is looking for fresh ideas.
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Ashburton's Market Day to move after retailer complaints
25 Jun 2025It means a popular annual market day in September has to move - but only just down road.
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Is this the end for New Zealand's Richard Nixon statue?
25 Jun 2025A small Tasman town faces an important question: keep the infamous statue of the disgraced US president or build a community hub instead?
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Masterton airport runway falls short of gaining safety credential
24 Jun 2025Despite a multimillion dollar upgrade to Masterton's airport, the runway has failed to achieve safety standards required by most passenger aircraft.
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Hoarder’s home drew 19 complaints before fire
24 Jun 2025In the early hours of Saturday morning the "materials", which included piles of scrap wood, ignited and quickly spread.
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The council with almost 50 vacant roles
24 Jun 2025Environment Southland disestablished 51 roles and created 56 new ones in a shake-up which impacted almost a quarter of staff this year.
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