Articles by Kiri Gillespie, NZ Herald
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Business
Concern as heavy industry seeks to continue discharging contaminants
Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 2:17pmA clean air advocate has spoken out against requests from two companies to continue to discharge contaminants into the atmosphere...
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National
'Quite serious': Drug-dealing, homelessness, burnout concerns for closed, storm-hit road
Saturday, 20 May 2023, 1:03pmPolice plan to regularly patrol a storm-hit closed Western Bay of Plenty road amid concerns of barriers being breached for...
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National
‘Increasingly unaffordable’: Rents expected to hit nearly $1000 a week in Tauranga
Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 9:14amThe Western Bay’s average weekly rent could balloon to nearly $1000 within 10 years, according to a report highlighting the...
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National
'Reassured': No plans to remove memorial to slain backpacker
Friday, 5 May 2023, 10:50amMauao kaitiaki [guardians] have revealed there are no plans to remove a memorial rock established to honour the life of slain...
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National
Bus driver shortage: New recruits flown in from overseas
Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 9:30amNew recruits from the Philippines and Fiji are helping address Tauranga’s bus driver shortage, but it could be months before...
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National
'The need is now': Council moves to help struggling CBD businesses
Tuesday, 4 April 2023, 9:16amThe Tauranga City Council is going to tap into a special fund to explore a range of initiatives aimed at helping the CBD’s...
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National
Tauranga councils tussle over who should keep paying the near $1m bus stop security bill
Saturday, 25 March 2023, 10:14amThe Bay of Plenty Regional Council is looking to “roll back” from the ongoing cost of providing security at key Tauranga...
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National
$3.06m in rates outstanding after regional council enacts new collection system
Friday, 3 March 2023, 8:49amEight months after the Bay of Plenty Regional Council began collecting its own rates, more than $3 million remains outstanding. However,...
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National
'Difficult times': Rotorua council warned of $5.6m deficit, cuts to services may be proposed
Friday, 24 February 2023, 8:43amRotorua Lakes Council has been warned it needs to cut back on core services in a bid to claw back a forecast deficit of $5.6...
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National
'Clear violation': Legal threat against council
Saturday, 11 February 2023, 1:35pmRotorua Lakes Council is being threatened with legal action by free speech advocates who believe a decision over public submissions...
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Emergency
'It's just colossal': Flood damage to Waimarino estimated to be $90k
Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 8:33amThe owner of a Tauranga adventure park submerged in metre-deep water estimates the business has lost about $90,000 due to...
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Crime
Mistaken identity and murder: Final pleas entered in David Kuka case
Thursday, 20 October 2022, 10:50amOne man charged in relation to the execution-style killing of a father-of-four David Kuka has pleaded guilty to a charge...
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National
'Like a nightmare and I haven't woken up': Grieving fiance tells of horror collision
Wednesday, 12 October 2022, 7:02amRichie Martin and Tanya Anderson were soulmates, engaged to be married - until a horror collision changed everything. Martin...
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National
Pothole claims: Drivers seek more than $4000 in compo for car damages
Saturday, 1 October 2022, 1:56pmMore than $4000 has been sought in compensation by drivers who suffered damage to their vehicles because of potholes and...
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Politics
Mayoral candidate stumped by mystery election signs going up on his behalf
Friday, 16 September 2022, 2:47pmSomeone is spending money on Don Thwaites' Western Bay of Plenty mayoral campaign - but he says it's not him. The Western...
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Crime
'Pretty scary': Manhunt after gunpoint robbery of security van, guards at ATM
Tuesday, 6 September 2022, 1:17pmA person who works in a strip of Kawerau shops where security staff refilling an ATM were robbed at gunpoint has described...
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Crime
Bus bashing: Driver concussed after violent racial attack at stop
Saturday, 4 June 2022, 11:07amA traumatised Tauranga bus driver is recovering from a head injury after he was violently attacked by a teenager at a city...
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Crime
Family in 'absolute shock' after man killed in suspected homicide in Tauranga
Sunday, 15 May 2022, 3:16pmA family is in "absolute shock" after their relative was killed in a suspected homicide in Tauranga last night. Police were...
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National
'Distraught': Youths forcibly board bus, smash mirror, racially abuse driver
Saturday, 14 May 2022, 9:33amA Tauranga bus driver has been left "emotionally distraught" after a group of youths forced their way onboard and began smashing...
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National
Ousted National leader Simon Bridges reveals plans and disappointment
Tuesday, 26 May 2020, 4:06pmFormer National Party leader Simon Bridges has described himself as a peacock becoming a feather duster in one of his first...
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National
Dairy owner recounts terrifying attack
Monday, 25 June 2018, 1:23pmA third aggravated robbery in as many as three years has become too much for a Tauranga dairy owner who now wants out of...
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News
Tauranga car salesmen stood down over racist comments
Wednesday, 13 June 2018, 12:23pmTwo car salesmen have been stood down after accidentally leaving a racist message on a woman's phone. The Farmers Auto Village...
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National
One dead after house fire near Tauranga
Tuesday, 5 June 2018, 7:05amA person is dead after a house fire in the Western Bay of Plenty town of Omokoroa overnight. Fire and Emergency New Zealand...
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National
SH29 safety signs in Kaimais shut down by vandals
Sunday, 3 June 2018, 12:44pmThieves and vandals have shut down the use of high-tech road safety signs on one of New Zealand's most deadly highways. The...
