by Aucklist | 1 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
An Auckland councillor is calling for plans to introduce charging at public park and ride facilities to be dropped, Stuff reports. “Charging people to do the right thing is grossly unfair,” said Manurewa-Papakura ward councillor Daniel Newman. He believes park...
by Aucklist | 1 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
A “stand-out” design that took three months of inspiration and three months of construction, won the top award at the MLT Hokonui Fashion Design Awards in Gore, Stuff reports. Sheetol Chawla, a student at AUT in Auckland, won the Mackersey Property...
by Aucklist | 1 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Sister cities Auckland and Los Angeles are celebrating 50 years of friendship, Auckland Council reveals. The relationship was established in 1972 following the launch of Air New Zealand’s direct flights between the two cities. Since then, Auckland’s longest-standing...
by Aucklist | 1 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
How did a rubbish disposal site earn so many thoughtful, positive reviews online? asks The Spinoff. 254 people have been compelled to review it on Google, giving the place an average 4.1 star review. Officially the Waitākere Refuse and Recycling Centre, it’s a...
by Aucklist | 1 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Despite the majority of New Zealand’s Ethiopian population living in Auckland, the city has been without a standalone Ethiopian restaurant since 2020, says The Spinoff. But a new restaurant is filling the gap. Fetehalow Zomo, alongside business partner and chef...
by Aucklist | 1 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Residents who live in Onehunga and its neighbouring suburbs can now do their part to help reduce the amount of waste going to landfill with the opening of the Onehunga Community Recycling Centre (CRC). “[It] will focus on reuse, repair, repurposing, and...
by Aucklist | 1 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
A park in Takapuna will lose its public toilets – possibly for years – after a disagreement over where temporary toilets should be placed while a new civic square is built, Stuff reports. Auckland Council’s development agency Eke Panuku is seeking to...
by Aucklist | 1 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
A young Māori wahine is helping South Auckland youth escape from cycles of family violence, gangs, and poverty, NZ Herald reports. “I was tired of waiting for other people to come up with solutions for young Māori,” says Māhera Maihi, who set up Mā Te...
by Aucklist | 1 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Five-thousand job hunters tried their luck at a mass recruitment drive on Sunday, Newshub reports, as Auckland Airport and the aviation industry scale up their operations now the border’s reopened. The job fair is the first of its kind, bringing employers and...
by Aucklist | 1 Aug 2022 | Auckland news
Auckland Council has dodged a million-dollar bill to alert residents to incoming changes to housing intensification, Newshub reports. By 20 August, all of the country’s largest councils must let local people know about plan changes linked to the...
by Aucklist | 15 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
Our offices’ temperatures may be set by a ‘thermal comfort model’ from the 1960s based on the comfort of a 40-year-old man, Newsroom reports. Research consistently shows women prefer – and even work better at – higher indoor temperatures than men. Women, on average,...
by Aucklist | 15 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
A cocktail of Covid-19 cases, winter sickness and staff shortages has pushed cancellations on Auckland’s public transport network to record levels, Stuff reports. The number of services cancelled daily is close to 2000, up from 1400 two months ago. The disruption is...
by Aucklist | 15 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
Times have changed since Aotearoa’s adoption system was written into law in 1955, Newsroom says. There are calls for the Ministry of Justice to give adopted children greater access to information about their birth family and culture, and support in reconnecting....
by Aucklist | 15 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
Auckland bakery Sweet and Me started out as a stall at the Parnell markets, says RNZ, and picked up popularity with a crowd that barely knew about Pacific flavours. Fiji-born chef Bertrand Jang has worked around the Pacific and is now focused on creating a range of...
by Aucklist | 15 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
Have you got a clever idea for cutting waste? Auckland Council is offering grants of up to $50,000 as part of the annual Waste Minimisation and Innovation Fund / Te pūtea Whakamōkito Para me te Auahatanga. The fund, which supports Auckland Council’s goal of sending...
by Aucklist | 15 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
A collection of climate advocates recently sued the council and AT, accusing them of failing to comply with the council’s own climate plans. And the judgment could have far-reaching implications, says The Spinoff. The council’s promises to do a lot about climate...
by Aucklist | 15 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
A recent opinion column by the chair of the Eden Park Trust Board was a thinly veiled plea for yet more Auckland ratepayer funding, writes former New Zealand Rugby comms chief Brian Finn on The Spinoff. Unlike Christchurch’s future stadium, Eden Park is not publicly...
by Aucklist | 15 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
Prepare to have your mind blown this winter by Elemental AKL‘s “Quantum Memories”, says Stuff. Created by Turkish artist Refik Anadol, a pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence, the pieces explore the possibility of a parallel world, by...
by Aucklist | 15 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
A person has been injured after a car crashed through the side of a house in Auckland, Newshub reports. A police spokesperson said just emergency services responded to a crash just before 1pm on Thursday, at Sheehan Street, Ponsonby. One person at the address was...
by Aucklist | 15 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has a stern message for people who don’t like wearing their masks, Newshub reports, as new cases pass 11k again. “Do your bit… to help us get through winter.” Dr Bloomfield said hospitalisations...
by Aucklist | 14 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
Auckland’s horror theme park Spookers has been sold – after being on the market for five years – to the owners of the Armageddon Expo, Stuff reveals. The owners say they plan to bring their “event experience” to the attraction, including a haunted house tour,...
by Aucklist | 14 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
Amid French anger over pesticides making their way to France in New Zealand exports, the EU has made a pledge to halve pesticide use by 2030. But, asks Newsroom, where will that leave our farmers? New Zealand is the world’s largest importer of palm kernel residue to...
by Aucklist | 14 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
Top Auckland puppy breeders were found guilty of neglect, Stuff reports, after a number of their dogs were found tethered without access to water and living in filthy conditions. The mother-daughter duo still deny any wrongdoing, claiming it was a conspiracy by the...
by Aucklist | 14 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
When Chervonne Taylor arrives at a job, she often gets “kia ora whaea, kia ora auntie”. She had already had a career in banking and owned a butchery with her husband, Stuff reports, before deciding to chase her dream job, graduating as a police officer at 44. And the...
by Aucklist | 14 Jul 2022 | Auckland news
It was no surprise that league fans celebrated in Ōtāhuhu after the Kiwis vs Mate Ma’a Tonga test last month, says The Spinoff. But some were surprised by the amount of rubbish that was left behind. While security and monitoring were all increased to accommodate the...
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