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Mayor's message to Housing Minister: Rotorua homes for Rotorua homeless
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Waretini lives and breaths the culture
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Ancient sandstone highly prized and closely guarded
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'Stupid little skits' grows into full-time business
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Budget 2022: First-home buyer loan scheme shaken up
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Rotorua brawl: Two groups involved, one charged with intentional damage
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The Premium Debate: how damaging are construction cost blowouts?
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Luke Kirkness: The pre-Budget promises are off the mark
Luke Kirkness isn't a budget expert but reckons the Government hasn't got it right.
Opinion: Riding on a bus is a privilege, not a right
Opinion: The bus stop boycott is showing users what they are missing out on
Business-owning mum wants Budget to tackle housing, food costs
Locals share their spending wishlists ahead of today's Budget announcement.
'Horrible story': Nats ask why threatening tenant allowed to keep state house
"Why do people who terrorise their neighbours get to stay?"
Luke Kirkness: Police need to be respected more and the buck stops with us
Luke Kirkness says police in NZ don't deserve to be spat at, bitten or hit.
Letters to the editor: Whakatāne turnoff roundabout a bad idea
OPINION: Rotorua readers have their say.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: I'm about to lose my job but I'm not sorry to go
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Budget ag-sector splash out 'grandiose money spending', farmer says
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Broken jaw, 'all-in brawl' among 17 new complaints of rugby foul play, misconduct
There were 17 incidents over two weekends on Bay of Plenty rugby fields.
Police seek video footage after 'unsettling' incident on CBD street
Police say they will hold the offenders to account.
Lakes DHB on track to post first surplus in eight years - and then dissolve
The last surplus was in 2014.
Happy and safe: Starving dogs left to die now on the road to recovery
The animals were found in the Kaingaroa Forest last week.
Museum trust gets biggest chunk of charity house cash
Thirty-seven applications were submitted and 23 were approved for the project's funds.
Opinion: Supermarket profits a slap in the face to hardworking Kiwis
OPINION: A slap in the face is a good way to describe how these profits make me feel.
The Premium Debate: If you're physically able, you should work
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Bit, spat at, hit with axes: Top cop says assaults on police becoming more violent
Revealed: The number of assaults on police officers over the past five years.
'Undervalued and underpaid': Health workers strike near Rotorua Hospital
They had signs saying: 'Toot 4 fair pay' and 'essential but overlooked'.
Council costs for development levy to hit $136,000
The council says the policy could return $31 million over a decade.
Rotorua teen coming to television screens in show
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