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Bay Dreams carnage: Footage of brawl emerges
Video of a violent brawl emerges on social media.
Traffic chaos blocks up Tauranga roads
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Bay of Plenty Times Year in Review: October 2019
Here's what made headlines in October.
'Better every year': Inside New Zealand's biggest music festival
Under smoke-hazy skies and an orange sun, they came in their masses.
Rising Tauranga rents put strain on families
Tauranga is one of the most expensive places to rent in the country.
'Nasty little drug' not seen by New Year drug testers
"We've had not seen anywhere near as much n-ethylpentylone as we were expecting to see."
Chase Tiatia to return to Bay after Hurricanes season
And his goals for 2020 are simple.
TECT Rescue Helicopter kept busy New Year's Day
TECT Rescue Helicopter winched elderly man from Mauao Summit after he collapsed.
Sold out Bay Dreams festival kicks off
Bay Dreams festival-goers are streaming into Baypark.
Smoke haze blankets Bay of Plenty: When will it lift?
A orange-tinted haze is hovering over Rotorua and Tauranga this morning.
Buddy Mikaere: The Treaty is all about a fair go
Waitangi Day and the Treaty… are we there yet?
Bay of Plenty Times Year in Review: September 2019
Here's what made headlines in September.
Life of Riley: Meet Tauranga's first baby of the new decade
'Chilled out' baby boy arrives shortly after midnight.
Bay of Plenty road toll climbs to 75
Region's fatalities featured a number of multiple-victim crashes.
Mall expansions: Bayfair's new cinema to open in New Year
How much bigger can our shopping malls get?
Rap star to play Bay festival after Immigration ban lifted
Immigration clears US star to play at festival after reviewing 5 year old ban
Police investigate death near Waihī Beach after brawl reported
Police attended reports of disorder in Bowentown shortly before 1am.
A stroke while surfing - recipe for disaster but 'It wasn't his time to go'
Ian Charlton was after a relaxing surf at the end of the summer, and then...
Top baby names of the past 120 years
The most popular baby names in New Zealand over the past 120 years.
Rare NZ seabird cared for at Tauranga wildlife centre
The Salvin's albatross was washed up on a Tauranga beach on Boxing Day.
Families pack into the Strand for Council NYE event
Families trekked to the Strand in Tauranga CBD to see in the New Year.
2020: The year the Bay gets a real transport plan
Other projects may need to take a back seat.
Bay Dreams brings 30K people, $4m economic boost, 1200 jobs
Everything you need to know about the massive Mount Maunganui music festival.
A look at how Mother Nature will usher in the Bay's New Year
High temperatures and low rainfall swept the region in 2019. What will 2020 bring?
Todd Muller: Clean waterways are everyone's responsibility
Our country's reality is that we all need to play a role in a clean water solution.
Letters: Thanks for getting the track opened
Bay of Plenty readers have their say.
Tauranga and Western Bay leaders reveals New Year wishes for 2020
Western Bay leaders and residents share their hopes and wishes for 2020.
Early birds grab front-row seats for fireworks
What's on and where to watch the fireworks in Tauranga tonight.
353 people killed on our roads in 2019. NZ's most lethal stretches revealed
The road toll rose today when a man died in hospital after a Kaimai truck crash.
Roaming dogs suspected of Matua cat killings caught
Dog DNA will be tested against swabs from bite marks.
Well-known Tauranga photographer dies
Alf Rendell lived almost all of his long life in Tauranga.
Countdown to 2020! What's on this New Year's Eve
How are you seeing in the New Year?
Boy, 12, saves men from rip at the Mount: 'He just kept a level head'
Freddie Mitchell saved two people from a rip at the Mount.