by Aucklist | 5 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
The chances of the ground shaking more violently in a quake is much higher than previously thought for large parts of the country, RNZ reports. In some places it has doubled or even trebled. A new national seismic hazard model has been released that gives the most...
by Aucklist | 5 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
It’s been a wet winter, Newsroom says, with record-breaking rainfall in Wellington resulting in more than 600 slips in one month. Slips have the power to take out our major infrastructure in a matter of seconds, and in a hilly country like New Zealand, that risk...
by Aucklist | 5 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Prisoners are leaving the system with a harder mindset than they had going in, says The Spinoff, and change is urgently needed. A new podcast aims to be the first step in a process to change the way we view the system. Now a criminology student at Victoria University,...
by Aucklist | 5 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Auckland Airport has apologised after a group of travellers was forced to sleep on the floor just metres from a departure lounge, Stuff reports. “It is absolutely not a level of service that we want to provide,” general manager operations Anna Cassels-Brown...
by Aucklist | 5 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke to media after visiting Auckland Film Studios in West Auckland’s Henderson, Stuff reports. In May, Auckland Council announced it would sell the studio to try and offset a $900 million revenue hit due to Covid. It came after the...
by Aucklist | 5 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
An Auckland dad who was told he couldn’t play on a bouncy castle with his child has clapped back in dramatic fashion, Stuff reports – he built one of the largest bouncy castles in the world. Megaland is about to come to life in a car park at Mt Smart Stadium,...
by Aucklist | 5 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Our houses are contributing big time to climate change, just by being there, says Newsroom. In fact, they cause up to 10% of New Zealand’s total greenhouse gas emissions. But there’s some cool stuff happening to reduce the harm our homes cause – and even make...
by Aucklist | 5 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Anchorage Park School and the Eastern Busway project team have collaborated to plant 100 native trees in the school’s native wetland area, Times reports. Anchorage Park School is the first school in New Zealand to use biodegradable seedling pots. Anchorage Park School...
by Aucklist | 5 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Potholes taking over New Zealand’s roads are causing a trail of destruction, Newshub reports, with popped tyres, dents and damaged wheel bearings. But what are people’s rights if a pothole causes expensive damage to someone’s car? One lawyer says the...
by Aucklist | 5 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Two shocking videos of a group of girls attacking other high-school-aged girls have emerged online, Newshub reports, to the horror of locals and Auckland’s Deputy Mayor. The first video was filmed on King St in Pukekohe while the second video was taken outside...
by Aucklist | 4 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
More than 100 passengers – including elderly and young children – who touched down in Auckland at 2am, were forced to sit and sleep on the ground of a cold corridor at Auckland International Airport, NZ Herald reports. They were told they could not go into...
by Aucklist | 4 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Mairangi Creek in Auckland’s North Shore was engulfed by three-metre high bubbles on Sunday afternoon, Stuff reports. Hibiscus and Bays local board member Julia Parfitt said incidents like this are not unheard of during the school break. “We get things like this...
by Aucklist | 4 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Hundreds of frontline staff at Auckland Council could go on strike, NZ Herald reports, after senior executives declined to sign off a new collective agreement. The actions of the council’s executive leadership team (ELT) have left the PSA bargaining team...
by Aucklist | 4 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
ASB has given the $150 million Auckland city farm it owns to a school which has leased the farm for nearly a century, NZ Herald reports. The bank has owned the land next to Mount Albert Grammar School since 1933, and for the past 89 years it has been used by the...
by Aucklist | 4 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Aucklanders who commute on trains are being warned parts of the network will be temporarily closed from next year for a major rebuild, RNZ reports. The work is part of a $330 million rail network upgrade and will mean the city’s Southern Line between Ōtāhuhu and...
by Aucklist | 4 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Just days out from polls closing, turnout in Auckland is a whisker under the same point in the last Super City election, says The Spinoff, with only 16.7% of votes cast, compared to 17% in 2019. That’s an improvement from last week, but even matching that turnout come...
by Aucklist | 4 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Auckland Council has revealed the most popular dog names and breeds in Tāmaki Makaurau and the region’s rarest canines. Auckland is a city of dog lovers, with ‘fur kids’ being an important part of many households across the region. Topping the list for female dog...
by Aucklist | 4 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero/Central City Library is running a youth writing competition, Auckland Council reports. If you’re aged 13-19 and you love to write, feel free to submit your work! Send your piece to centrallibraryevents@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz before Thursday...
by Aucklist | 4 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Youth mental health organisations are being inundated with calls, Newshub reports. But youth are less focused on bullying and typical school pressures and more worried about the state of the world. “A couple of years back it would have been bullying and family...
by Aucklist | 4 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
A new biodegradable plant pot has been developed as an alternative to the 350 million plastic trays used per year by nurseries and gardeners, Stuff reports. The product, developed by Pinehurst Associates with support from the Ministry for Primary Industries, is a pot...
by Aucklist | 4 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Thousands of university workers will go on strike in the coming days, Stuff reports, just weeks away from the end of the academic term. Industrial action was supported by all eight universities, with Tertiary Education Union members saying they were angry and worried...
by Aucklist | 3 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Auckland bus drivers are being assaulted at the rate of one a week, reports Newsroom Pro (paywalled). They say it’s an emergency, and that their employers and Auckland Transport need to fulfil their legal duties to protect driver safety....
by Aucklist | 3 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
An Auckland man says he was stuck in Newmarket Westfield’s shopping centre car park for two hours, while trying to leave, Stuff reports. He was one of several disgruntled drivers who said poor design and heavy traffic kept them in long queues. One woman had to...
by Aucklist | 3 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Police have increased patrols in Auckland shopping malls, which have been targets of recent smash and grab raids, Stuff reports. The most recent raid was on a Michael Hill jewellery store in Albany mall on Friday night. One local mother fears that such incidents will...
by Aucklist | 3 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Businesses who have started offering their staff a four-day working week say this is what the future of employment should look like, RNZ reports. Since the pandemic, many companies have been flirting with the possibility of shorter weeks in order to offer a better...
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