Police say the little girl found wandering alone in the Botanical Gardens is safe and sound with her family.

The child was found by two police officers around 5 this evening.

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24 Nov: Police are recovering a body in the water near Chapel Street in Tauranga

24 Nov: A polluting Waikato pig farm has been handed a record half a million dollar fine

23 Nov: Authorities are continuing to search for a Tauranga man, who's been missing since Thursday night

22 Nov: A child's been airlifted to Waikato Hospital with serious injuries, after being trapped under a log at Raglan

22 Nov: A fire investigator's heading out to the scene of a suspicious house fire in Northland's Opononi

21 Nov: Waikato's Matamata-Piako District Council has been fined 105 thousand dollar for unlawfully discharging wastewater from its treatment plant in Waihou, near Te Aroha

20 Nov: A man's appeared in court charged with the murder of another man in New Plymouth last night

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Tennis:
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