Articles by Kiri Gillespie
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National
Boomtime: The city bucking NZ's building consent 'slowdown'
Monday, 1 April 2024, 12:45PMFewer building consents are being granted as New Zealand grapples with a construction ‘slowdown’ - except for Rotorua. So...
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National
'Perfect sense': $147m hotel and conference centre poised for CBD
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 3:50PMA proposed $147 million nine-storey Tauranga hotel and conference centre is a step closer to reality as details of what it...
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Business
'Tough call': About 40 Warehouse staff to find new roles as central site closes
Sunday, 11 February 2024, 3:34PMAbout 40 staff from The Warehouse are expected to be absorbed into other parts of the retail chain’s Bay of Plenty businesses...
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National
Western Bay among busiest area in NZ for ambulance call-outs
Sunday, 28 January 2024, 3:52PMThe Western Bay of Plenty was one of the busiest regions in New Zealand for ambulance callouts last year with the service...
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National
Fountain tragedy: $90k upgrade after 4-year-old's suspected drowning death
Sunday, 19 November 2023, 10:05AMA public fountain in Tauranga where a pre-schooler is believed to have drowned will be modified to prevent such a tragedy...
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National
'There will be conflict': Paid parking eyed for Mount beaches, town centre
Thursday, 14 September 2023, 9:27PMParking at one of New Zealand’s most popular beaches may come at a cost from next year but the proposed move is already being...
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National
Ex-councillor Murray Guy removed from council chambers
Monday, 21 August 2023, 10:45AMFormer Tauranga City Councillor Murray Guy was removed from a tense and packed Tauranga City Council meeting today. Security...
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National
Funeral home fined $85k after cremation smoke 'invaded' homes, bodies
Tuesday, 1 August 2023, 3:47PMA Tauranga funeral home convicted of illegal discharges of cremation smoke, which sickened and traumatised neighbours over...
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National
'Madness': Top developer hits out as thousands of homes held up
Monday, 24 July 2023, 12:22PMOne of Tauranga’s largest prioritised areas for housing growth is trapped in “the ultimate catch-22″, unable to deliver the...
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National
Rushing, attacking, stalking: Man fights to keep dog after six complaints
Tuesday, 11 July 2023, 12:13PMA Tauranga dog owner who has already jumped over a back fence with his dogs to prevent them from being taken is preparing...
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National
'Embarrassed': Iwi rep vows to protest Stop Co-Governance meetings
Monday, 3 July 2023, 9:09PMA Tauranga historian and iwi representative feels “embarrassed and ashamed” a local community hall is hosting anti-co-governance...
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National
'We are going backwards': City chief issues warning as rates increased
Monday, 19 June 2023, 2:41PMTauranga commissioners have reluctantly agreed to an increase in residential and commercial rates but say the city is “going...
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National
Concern as heavy industry seeks to continue discharging contaminants
Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 2:20PMA clean air advocate has spoken out against requests from two companies to continue to discharge contaminants into the atmosphere...
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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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Crime
'Largely unintelligible': Tio Faulkner's High Court appeal rejected
Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 2:38PMA man who illegally tried to construct his own coastal “park” at Matapihi has failed in his bid to appeal his conviction...
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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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Crime
'No risk of a miscarriage of justice': Supreme Court dismisses violent killer's appeal bid
Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 2:12PMA jealous man convicted of violently murdering his pregnant girlfriend, leaving her to die on the grounds of a Rotorua primary...
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National
'Sorry': Monster trucks promoter cancels NZ gig after 's***hole' jibe
Tuesday, 28 February 2023, 9:50PMThe promoter of the Monster Trucks Extreme tour hit with multiple complaints after its Tauranga show underwhelmed some punters...