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Dog owners push back over registration fees
1+ hour, 25+ min ago (932+ words) A Western Bay of Plenty resident is sickened by the council’s latest dog registration fee hike. Maketū pensioner Carolyn Symmans said she did not believe the fees were fair. “It’s really sickening,” she told Local Democracy Reporting. Registration fees go…...
Powerco's new general manager
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (214+ words) Craig Stewart has been named Powerco's new general manager for people, safety, and culture. Powerco has appointed a new Tauranga-based general manager for people, safety, and culture. Craig Stewart will lead a newly formed team bringing together people strategy, organisational…...
Tauranga trust’s dual mission
3+ hour, 25+ min ago (618+ words) For most people, a beach or coastline clean-up is about removing rubbish. For Outflow Trust Founder Ash Morgan, it is about restoring the Western Bay of Plenty through people and place, helping whenua, awa and moana heal while creating opportunities…...
Police alert public to crypto scam
4+ hour, 25+ min ago (409+ words) Over the past few weeks, victims have reported scams which have resulted in millions of dollars in losses. Detective Inspector Stuart Mills said in a statement that the scammers were posing as police detectives, often claiming that the victim’s details,…...
18-year-old Kiwi detained in Thai jail
16+ hour, 25+ min ago (516+ words) Loukas Rainger, 18, was detained trying to return home from Bangkok for allegedly taking a watch from an airport in Surat Thani two weeks earlier. An 18-year-old’s Kiwi’s first overseas trip has ended with him detained in a Thai jail after…...
$540k BayTrust boost for restoration
20+ hour, 25+ min ago (538+ words) A $540,000 BayTrust grant will help one of the Bay’s most successful community-led environmental restoration programmes maintain momentum just as central government funding ends. The new funding, spread over the next three years, will enable Project Parore to retain its skilled…...
Man charged after memorial plaques stolen twice
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (190+ words) A man has been charged with stealing three memorial brass plaques on two separate occasions. The World War I and World War II memorial plaques were stolen from Whakatāne’s Mitchell Park in March, recovered, reinstated, then stolen again between April…...
Funeral directors criticise councils over prices
18+ hour, 25+ min ago (619+ words) Councils aren’t doing enough to support “dignity in death”, with one North Island city tripling ash burial prices and hiking regular burial costs by half, funeral directors say. The Funeral Directors’ Association of New Zealand survey found three-quarters of members…...
Kiwi's Euro football dream on hold
19+ hour, 25+ min ago (610+ words) Jacob Kleinsmith was living his dream. The Bay of Plenty local was playing professional football in Estonia, building the overseas career he’d worked towards for over a decade. Then unexpectedly, about six weeks ago, the 18-year-old was deported. “On the…...
$1.3m for community rugby upgrades
21+ hour, 25+ min ago (520+ words) Eighteen community rugby clubs will receive a boost to their facilities through the latest distribution of Legacy Fund grants. A total of $1,289,949.48 will be distributed across the successful clubs, from Whangaruru in the north to Invercargill in the south. Fourteen…...