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...
by Aucklist | 17 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
A $40 million project is underway to double the capacity of east Auckland’s sole hospital, Times reports. “South-east Auckland is short of surgical resources, particularly orthopaedic and endoscopy facilities, and Ormiston Hospital is at capacity so this development...
by Aucklist | 17 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
A new tool aims to make it easier for websites to use te reo Māori, says The Spinoff. After decades of neglect and active suppression, te reo Māori has experienced a resurgence in recent years. Figures released earlier this year by Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa show...
by Aucklist | 17 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Muriwai Beach has long been a hot spot for 4-wheel drivers with a need for speed, Newshub reports. But now, the council is cracking down on those venturing onto the dunes and damaging vegetation. The rules dictate that drivers stick to the flat part of the beach but...
by Aucklist | 17 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Schools in one south Auckland suburb are “baffled” after losing funding under a new government model, Stuff reports. Across 158 south Auckland schools, 12 lost funding in the switch from deciles to the equity index (EQI). At least eight of those schools were in...
by Aucklist | 14 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
With productivity hailed as the essence of our work culture, a large sector of society is labelled as unproductive and stripped of basic rights, says The Spinoff. Labour inspectors may issue minimum wage exemption permits to employees who have a disability that limits...
by Aucklist | 14 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
BirdCare Aotearoa, based in Auckland’s Green Bay, is the largest wild bird rehabilitation centre in the country, says The Spinoff. A registered charity, it provides rehabilitation for sick, injured and orphaned wild birds brought in by members of the public...
by Aucklist | 14 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Seven percent of New Zealanders watch TV with audio description, says Newsroom. It’s a proportion set only to increase with the country’s ageing population. Since an increase in funding in 2020, non-profit Able’s output of audio descriptions has increased by 148%,...
by Aucklist | 14 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Beijing has set up overseas police outreach operations in more than 80 cities across the world, including Australia, RNZ reveals, as part of a global security push under President Xi Jinping. The stations are affiliated with, and run by, local or municipal governments...
by Aucklist | 14 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
As the Auckland crime wave continues, tradesmen are being hit in the pocket as thieves target their tools to sell on online marketplaces. But many are taking tracking down offenders into their own hands, NZ Herald reports. Apprentice carpenter Braden Barker was...
by Aucklist | 14 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
A cow has died after being hit by three vehicles on Auckland’s Northern Motorway, Stuff reports. Both northbound lanes were briefly blocked in the Dairy Flat area between Albany and Silverdale after the incident, which took place around 5.30am on Thursday morning....
by Aucklist | 14 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Residents of an Auckland suburb might have had a third maunga to love alongside Mt Victoria/Takarunga and North Head/Maungauika, Stuff reveals, had Mt Cambria/Takararo not been quarried away over the course of 100 years. Takararo was a 40-metre-high scoria cone...
by Aucklist | 14 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Police have arrested a person who had a fake gun in Auckland on Thursday morning, Stuff reports. Police were called to a retail complex in Manukau at 11.20am after a person was seen with what was believed to be a gun on Leyton Way. “Police attended and subsequently...
by Aucklist | 14 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
An Auckland mansion belonging to King Charles III has been put on the market for the first time in 72 years, Newshub reports. The heritage mansion, situated on the north-west fringe of Auckland – 25 Clark Road in Hobsonville – was inherited by the new...
by Aucklist | 14 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
The final results of Auckland’s local election have been delayed because of the significant number of special votes that were put in, Newshub reports. Wayne Brown was elected as Auckland’s mayor with 144,619 votes, winning against his fellow candidate...
by Aucklist | 13 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Prized jerseys donated by the Warriors’ number one fan have been stolen in a ram raid at Mt Smart Stadium, RNZ reports. Sir Peter Leitch, better known as the Mad Butcher, said he is shattered after 14 jerseys which he had donated to the stadium were taken. Among...
by Aucklist | 13 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
A Michael Hill store in Auckland’s North Shore is closing its doors after several burglaries and ram-raids, RNZ reports. The Takapuna shop has been hit three times this year. Chief executive Daniel Bracken said the Takapuna store was the most targeted of their...
by Aucklist | 13 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
New Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is being cagey about the specific hours he will commit to the job of leading the Super City and says “it’s nobody’s business”, RNZ reports. He would not necessarily work at weekends and was not being paid a huge...
by Aucklist | 13 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Masks were once mandatory in public places but, as the rules have loosened, fewer people appear to choose to wear one, RNZ reports. People are still encouraged to wear a mask in crowded places, enclosed spaces with poor ventilation, close contact settings, or when...
by Aucklist | 13 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
A lack of regulation has made New Zealand an easy target for online gambling providers, reports Newsroom, with estimated spending increasing from $139.3m in 2014 to $332.6m in 2020. NZ’s unregulated online gambling space is expected to hit $600 million by 2025 if the...
by Aucklist | 13 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
In a financially tight and fragmented era, sharing books and food via Little Libraries and Pātaka Kai (food pantries) is on the rise, says The Spinoff. Little Libraries (also called book fridges or pop-up libraries), are tiny libraries installed outside houses or in...
by Aucklist | 13 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
London-based magazine Time Out has named the central Auckland suburb of Kingsland as one of the world’s ‘coolest neighbourhoods’, says The Spinoff. Coming in at a respectable 43rd, the inner-city suburb sits between Ubud in Bali and Haut-Marais in Paris. However, it...
by Aucklist | 13 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
One particularly good programme Auckland Transport has underway right now is adding protection to 60km of existing painted cycleways to make them safer. This is being rolled out over three years, says Greater Auckland, and on the first corridors getting the treatment,...
by Aucklist | 13 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
A south Auckland mum says she is too scared to go back to her local shopping centre after she had an imitation gun pointed in her face at a laundromat, Stuff reports. Flat Bush woman Herem Sakaria hasn’t returned to Otara Town Centre’s Blue Sea Laundromat since...
by Aucklist | 13 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Auckland Council says siren battles may be at the heart of Auckland’s tsunami siren vandalism problem, Newshub reports. Siren battles have been popularised in Auckland since the early 2000s, with youths attaching battery-powered speaker systems to their vehicles...
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