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'Miracle': Council workers' actions save great-grandmother's life
22 Dec 2025Sandra Bristowe, 78, had collapsed in her front garden and started "grabbing at her chest" and complaining of pain.
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Camera catches man damaging grave, police say it's not enough
19 Dec 2025A family is distraught that a mother's headstone has been repeatedly damaged.
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Community cheers as booze back on tap at hotel bar
19 Dec 2025A popular Wairarapa coastal watering hole is back in business.
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Rangatira Marae holds burial ceremony for taonga lost to Cyclone Gabrielle
18 Dec 2025Rangatira Marae was demolished this year after Cyclone Gabrielle devastated it in 2023.
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Condescending and costly: Advocates slam disability and ageing revamp
18 Dec 2025A plan to downgrade community input on disability and ageing issues in New Plymouth is tokenistic, condescending and would cost the district money, advocates say.
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Dargaville’s town hall replacement by 2028: Deputy mayor
18 Dec 2025Gordon Lambeth says he wants to see a replacement civic complex completed before the end of the current council term.
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Homeless shower options still being explored in Invercargill
18 Dec 2025A restroom alternative is still being worked through as the cost of the current set-up continues to bite.
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300 hours of work destroyed: Vandals leave Featherston’s Christmas tree in tatters
18 Dec 2025The tree, handmade by a local craft collective entirely from recycled materials, was found in tatters after it came down on Monday night.
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Hawke's Bay cities in level 3 water restrictions
16 Dec 2025Hastings and Napier water restrictions have been upgraded to Level 3, meaning sprinkler use is now banned.
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'Take a mask': The popular tourist toilets labelled an 'embarrassment'
15 Dec 2025Whakarewarewa toilets have been labelled an embarrassment, with new facilities planned soon.
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The marine species that have 'totally disappeared' from Marlborough Sounds
12 Dec 2025Of the four ecologically significant species monitored at 16 sites in Queen Charlotte Sound/Tōtaranui, only one remains.
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'Dead duck': Decision looms on contentious Auckland rubbish trial
12 Dec 2025Aucklanders will find out next week if a six month-trial to move the weekly kerbside rubbish collection to fortnightly will go ahead next year.
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'Nowhere near enough': A 780-tonne lake weed disaster
12 Dec 2025A funding battle is brewing over lake weed control in Rotorua as the three-week, 780-tonne clean-up of the latest stinky stranding in Lake Rotorua wraps up.
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'Sign of the times': Town's sports day winding up after 116 years
12 Dec 2025A sports event that has woven itself into the fabric of a small Southland town is wrapping up after more than a century.
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Could a design competition help a region in need of houses?
12 Dec 2025Concerns about the rate of intensification in Tasman are causing councillors to consider "creative" solutions on how to encourage uptake.
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Gardeners' close calls with traffic prompt flower bed shake-up
12 Dec 2025Rotorua council will replant high-risk city garden beds after a surge in near-miss incidents.
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"Gross misjudgment and disrespect': Deputy slams Napier mayor's failed committee move
12 Dec 2025Napier's Deputy Mayor Sally Crown said Mayor Richard McGrath's proposal to omit mana whenua from this term's committees had blindsided councillors.
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Nearly 1200 dog-related complaints in Wairarapa over 2024/25 year
11 Dec 2025Animal control officers in Wairarapa councils were kept busy with nearly 1200 dog-related call outs during the last financial year.
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Relief and excitement for new Pekatahi Bridge on SH2
11 Dec 2025Whakatāne Mayor Nandor Tanczos says the government's plan to replace the ageing Pekatahi Bridge shows "a collective push around a unified purpose can really make a difference".
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Summer vigilance urged around pop-up pools
11 Dec 2025A tragedy involving a toddler who drowned in a temporary pool is prompting a fresh warning to Aucklanders to keep safety in mind this summer.
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Mayors face 'tsunami of changes'
11 Dec 2025North Canterbury's mayors have responded to the Government's proposed resource management and local government reforms.
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Hastings is getting 180 new bus stops - not everyone's happy
10 Dec 2025A shake-up of Hawke's Bay's bus network has frustrated some Hastings residents who don't want bus stops installed outside their homes.
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Gisborne flytipping surges more than 50 percent
10 Dec 2025Rubbish left outside the transfer station has cost ratepayers $570,000.
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Rotorua Night Market to return to city centre, ending 'foolish' trial
10 Dec 2025The council has cut short a trial move to Kuirau Park after just two months.
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