Cameron Luxton says youth crime at the Willow Street bus stop is out of control - with assaults, racial abuse, and death threats from school kids

He is proposing a one month bus ban for any child exhibiting such behaviour.

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29 Dec: Tauranga's community New Year's Eve events have been cancelled due to bad weather

29 Dec: A mum and two teenagers saved an elderly man who collapsed on a hike near Thames last night

28 Dec: Gisborne-bound motorists are being urged to drive safe, and plan ahead, as traffic's expected to worsen, over the holiday break

27 Dec: A body's been found in the search for a jet skiier, who went missing from the Waikato Bar, on Christmas Day

26 Dec: A search continues for a person who went missing after a jet ski incident near Port Waikato on Christmas

25 Dec: A person's been airlifted to Auckland's Middlemore Hospital, after a quad bike rolled over around 2.30pm at Northland's Pouto Point

25 Dec: A Coromandel holidaymaker is still in shock after a shark attacked his kayak 'completely out of the blue.'

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