by Aucklist | 19 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
A man has been left traumatised and nursing serious injuries after being bashed on an Auckland street in an alleged road-rage incident, NZ Herald reports. Police attended an incident on Mahia Rd, Manurewa outside a petrol station, where a man was allegedly beaten up,...
by Aucklist | 19 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
The country’s largest insurer, IAG, says property damage claims from bad weather are up a third on last year, RNZ reports. There have been more than 13,000 claims from the 11 significant storms in the past six months – one fewer large event than the...
by Aucklist | 19 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
The government is streamlining its Covid-19 response powers, RNZ reports, but the seven-day isolation period will remain for now. A legacy of the pandemic was the lesson that the government needed to be prepared for any future event instead of having to start from...
by Aucklist | 19 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Here in Tāmaki Makaurau we’re very fortunate to have the stunning Waitākere Ranges on our back doorstep, says Auckland Council. As we begin to head into warmer weather, now is a great time to start planning a weekend outing with the whānau. Part of Te Ara o Hillary /...
by Aucklist | 19 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
The mayor-elect of Wellington has a message for Aucklanders, says The Spinoff, including the people Wayne Brown wants to boot off Auckland city boards. A recent NZ Herald advert said: “Just thought I would drop you a wee note from us in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara to let you...
by Aucklist | 19 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Tīkapa Moana, Auckland’s famous Hauraki Gulf, is considered one of the great marine taonga (treasures) of Aotearoa, says Newshub. But the 4000 square kilometre stretch of water is severely under stress. Overfished and over-harvested, quite simply, the gulf is in...
by Aucklist | 19 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Groundswell members will rally against the Government’s proposed agricultural emissions plan this Thursday, Newshub reveals, in a nationwide protest. “Over 28,000 New Zealanders [have signed] up to protect farming and our rural communities from the...
by Aucklist | 19 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
The owner of the Mt Wellington funeral home set alight in a “suspicious fire” on Tuesday morning is “hurt and devastated”, Newshub reports. Detective Senior Sergeant Scott Armstrong said the circumstances surrounding the fire at Aroha Funerals...
by Aucklist | 18 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Times are lean at the Auckland Museum, Stuff reveals, with the iconic attraction asking ratepayers for more financial help. The museum has not had an increase in funding from its levy in three years despite inflation pressures. “Without a significant increase in the...
by Aucklist | 18 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Since his food bank was burgled on Sunday afternoon, motivational speaker and gym founder Dave Letele has been “amazed” by the support he has received from the community, Stuff reveals. By 2pm on Monday, Letele had received $24,000 in donations from individuals and...
by Aucklist | 18 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
The adage of one’s junk being another’s treasure is very much on show at an artist residency project in Auckland, RNZ reports, where discarded stuff from the inorganic waste collection is being made into art, or repurposed into something useful. Click here...
by Aucklist | 18 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
A central Auckland butcher says people are cooking differently to make meat go further, RNZ reports, as food prices hit a 13-year high. Ellerslie Meats owner-operator Ian Groves, who has been a butcher for 44 years, said he had never seen anything like the prices his...
by Aucklist | 18 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
The emergency department of one of New Zealand’s biggest hospitals has been slammed as unsafe for patients and staff in a damning new report, RNZ reveals. In a scathing, five-page document, Middlemore has been described as dysfunctional, overcrowded and unsafe....
by Aucklist | 18 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
A Waiheke woman is questioning the one-size-fits-all nature of the Dog Control Act, Newsroom reports, after her dog spent 509 days waiting injured in the pound for the courts to decide his fate, only to be put down in August. In a two-year-long back and forth through...
by Aucklist | 18 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
The PIC Coastal Classic is the biggest coastal yacht race in New Zealand, and one of the biggest in the world, Times reveals. 170 boats are entered in the 40th anniversary of the iconic Kiwi race – one of the biggest fleets in recent years. Entries close on Friday for...
by Aucklist | 18 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Auckland Council’s biosecurity dog team is gathering this week with their counterparts from the Department of Conservation and private contractors across the country for a ‘nose to tail’ convention. Sixteen certified pest detection dogs and their handlers...
by Aucklist | 18 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Join us at Te Paataka Koorero o Takaanini for a free session of Tai Chi, invites Auckland Council. Tai Chi is appropriate for people of all backgrounds and ages and is believed to offer a range of health benefits including improved balance, pain management, improved...
by Aucklist | 18 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Diesel prices have overtaken petrol for the second time in months, Newshub reports. Gull’s general manager Dave Bodger told AM the climbing prices of diesel are “unprecedented”. “I’ve unfortunately spent over 30 years in the industry and...
by Aucklist | 17 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Stuff, OPINION: Wellingtonians appear mostly jubilant with their new mayor, left-leaning Tory Whanau, despite the feeling of improbability about how to fix the pipes, or where those extra houses are going to go. Meanwhile in Auckland – a city whose downtown has...
by Aucklist | 17 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
A South Auckland foodbank run by Dave “Buttabean” Letele, a former professional boxer, has been robbed, NZ Herald reports. Letele, well-known for his free boot camps and motivational programmes, said the theft is a “real kick in the face”....
by Aucklist | 17 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Auckland Council-controlled organisation Eke Panuku has 50 middle managers earning an average of $143,000 a year, NZ Herald reports. That average excludes the company’s nine top managers from its Executive Leadership Team who earn more than $200,000 each,...
by Aucklist | 17 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
New Zealand has recorded its first case of the new Omicron subvariant BQ.1.1, RNZ reports, and epidemiologist Michael Baker said a return to some kind of alert level system could help avoid the worst in future Covid-19 waves. “We’ve already been through...
by Aucklist | 17 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Auckland’s new mayor Wayne Brown has announced a campaign to eradicate mobile black spots across the city, RNZ reports, but a telecommunications expert says the move isn’t financially viable. “Mobile coverage is vital for road safety, emergency...
by Aucklist | 17 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
The Auckland City Missioner says the gender pay gap must be closed, RNZ reports, as a growing number of women are using foodbanks. Helen Robinson said single mothers were most in need. “It really, really shows that people who are suffering deeply in terms of...
by Aucklist | 17 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
As mainstream health services struggle to meet demand, a Ngāi Tahu initiative on the South Island’s West Coast is seeing treatment offered to allcomers, Newsroom reveals. Could the future for small towns with dwindling services be health care provided by Māori...
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