by Aucklist | 8 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Southern Cross has been trying to expand its hospital at Brightside Rd and Gillies Ave in Auckland since 2020, Stuff reports, using properties it already owns. But the special character of the neighbourhood surrounding the hospital is the focus of a planning dispute...
by Aucklist | 8 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
While PCR tests are still available and remain the “gold standard” for testing, many have turned to rapid antigen tests (RATs), RNZ reports. But with these benefits come a range of limitations: the biggest one being that they can provide false negative or...
by Aucklist | 8 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Councillors have voted to protect most of Auckland’s villa suburbs, in an audacious, questionably legal act of legislative defiance. Hayden Donnell writes on The Spinoff about the council quest to stop housing where it’s needed most. “Protections on so-called...
by Aucklist | 8 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Auckland Council is on the lookout for 20 summer rangers to join the regional parks team for a three-month paid internship this summer. “This is the perfect summer job for students who see our parks as our greatest taonga and love to help people connect with nature,”...
by Aucklist | 8 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
South Island farmers are currently achieving greater success than those in the North in controlling Taenia ovis (sheep measles), Rural News reports. Ovis is caused by the T. ovis tapeworm. Although it poses no risk to human health, it can cause blemishes in sheep...
by Aucklist | 8 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
An Auckland domestic violence survivor is speaking out after her ex-boyfriend was sentenced to 12 months of home detention and ordered to pay $4600, after subjecting her to two years of extreme abuse including strangling her, Newshub reports. “I feel let down by...
by Aucklist | 8 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
More first-home buyers are moving into Auckland suburbs such as Westgate, Glen Eden and Karaka, OneRoof reports, as falling house prices and new terraced housing developments make it easier for them to get into areas they may have previously been shut out of....
by Aucklist | 8 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
A home on Great South Rd, Papakura was shot at in the early hours of Sunday morning, Stuff reports. No one was injured, and the occupant of the house dropped to the floor as soon as the shooting began. One bullet was found lodged into the home’s kitchen cabinets....
by Aucklist | 8 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Two Auckland reality stars have been ordered to pay their landlord $1780, Newshub reports, after losing their Tenancy Tribunal case over a series of issues they had with their St Heliers rental property. The pair threatened to expose their landlord on their social...
by Aucklist | 8 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Storm damage is costing the Department of Conservation millions of dollars, Newshub reveals, with repair bills rising nearly fivefold over the past five financial years. DoC’s heritage and visitors director, Tim Bamford, said it was difficult to determine the...
by Aucklist | 5 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
A 1912 report in the Rodney & Otamatea Times has gone viral online, The Spinoff reports. “COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE,” was the headline. “[Coal consumption] tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The...
by Aucklist | 5 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
South Auckland locals are living in fear due to a reckless group of dirt bike riders who are speeding and doing wheelies along a major road, Newshub reveals. Footage shows the group of riders speeding along Cavendish Drive in Manukau, and the group can also be seen...
by Aucklist | 5 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
“FARC Off Brian” is the name of a counter-protest group that supports democracy and plans to protest against the Freedoms & Rights Coalition (FARC) protest led by Brian Tamaki in Auckland this weekend, Newshub reports. Organiser Mark Graham says he...
by Aucklist | 5 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
A local community group recently came together for a tree planting session in Auckland, Stuff reports. More than 25 members of the Hindu Swyamsevak Sangh (HSS) got their spades, slipped on their gumboots and dug right into their mission at Wenderholm Regional Park....
by Aucklist | 5 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
A 19-year-old sentenced to home detention for raping and sexually assaulting young women, was given the green light to attend Auckland university while on home detention, Stuff reports. But only a week later following calls from a survivor advocate and inquiries from...
by Aucklist | 5 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Musick Point – Te Naupata Reserve has had a major spruce up, Times reveals, thanks to a group of community volunteers and a cash injection from the Howick Local Board. The land, part of Ngai Tai ki Tamaki treaty settlement, has been neglected for many years and had...
by Aucklist | 5 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Like Auckland, Los Angeles is experiencing intensification and urban sprawl, with the many social problems it brings, RNZ reports. Award-winning LA architect Michael Maltzan, says architects in LA have been doing their bit in tackling homelessness, city sprawl,...
by Aucklist | 5 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
An attempt to prevent Auckland Council from potentially being able to sell a local public reserve has failed, reports Times. The park at 9R Fortyfoot Lane in Sunnyhills is among the properties the council wants to sell under its emergency budget in an effort to raise...
by Aucklist | 5 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Three people have been arrested after police officers were kept busy by a string of burglaries across Auckland in the early hours of Thursday, Newshub reports. A vehicle speeding in Royal Oak just after 2am was linked to an earlier burglary from a shop in Ellerslie....
by Aucklist | 5 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Young people flocking overseas aren’t just leaving bosses with job vacancies, Newsroom reports – they are leaving a glut of rooms, apartments and homes available for rent. This drop in demand is having a flow-on effect on rents. According to TradeMe’s rental price...
by Aucklist | 4 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
An Auckland doctor specialising in skincare and skin cancer is sharing his secrets to improving the look of wrinkles, Stuff reveals – and it has nothing to do with injections. Doctor Sharad Paul began treating skin cancer in Aotearoa, but his career has had a...
by Aucklist | 4 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
A former boarding house belonging to Dilworth Trust has been snapped up by buyer who plans to turn it back into a family home, OneRoof reveals. The trust is currently at the centre of an investigation into historic sex abuse at the school, and the Market Road property...
by Aucklist | 4 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Some shoppers are already turning their backs on the big two supermarket chains, Foodstuffs and Woolworths, who were earning $1 million in excess profits a day, RNZ reports. The government is setting up an industry watchdog later this year – but the price relief...
by Aucklist | 4 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
An Auckland businessman has been found liable for failures that led to the death of a subcontractor, who fell from the roof of a house in Bucklands Beach while spray painting, Times reports. A WorkSafe investigation found inadequate risk assessment at the site, where...
by Aucklist | 4 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
The average value of New Zealand homes fell by $33,599 over the last four months, while the average value of homes in Auckland declined by $85,452, according to the CoreLogic House Price Index, Interest reports. Auckland’s average values declined in all major...
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