by Aucklist | 3 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
A charity dedicated to feeding new mothers is marking the milestone of delivering 200,000 free meals to struggling whānau, RNZ reports. Founded in 2009 by Pukekohe mother Jacqui Ritchie, Bellyful has since grown to serve families with new babies or young children in...
by Aucklist | 3 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
A group of migrant and refugee women are utilising traditional sewing and craft practices to turn old things into treasures, Times reports. Auckland-based Kohna Zari Ko is a mending and upcycling service led by the Migrant Women’s Group and The New Settlers Family and...
by Aucklist | 3 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
The housing market slump has cost homeowners in Auckland more than $140,000, NZ Herald reports. Homeowners in 57 Auckland suburbs have seen the value of their property drop more than $200,000 as rising interest rates and worsening inflation cause buyers to retreat...
by Aucklist | 3 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
An east Auckland resident is walking 10,000 steps daily in a bid to raise awareness and money for the respiratory community, Times reports. Respiratory conditions like asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and sleep apnoea affect 700,000 (one in six)...
by Aucklist | 3 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Aucklanders are not happy with the news more than 1600 roads are having their speed limits lowered, Newshub reports, with some suggesting it is “madness”. Last week, Auckland Transport (AT) announced 19% of the city’s roads will have their speed...
by Aucklist | 3 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Economists are warning Kiwis are in for an uncomfortable and tough 2023, Newshub reports, as the country tries to manage high inflation and global instability. New Zealand is currently battling a cost of living crisis driven largely by skyrocketing inflation....
by Aucklist | 3 Oct 2022 | Auckland news
Organisers of the Auckland Armageddon Expo have cancelled their planned 2022 event, Newshub reveals, due to continued uncertainty about being able to hold the event at the ASB Showgrounds. Expo director Bill Geradts told Newshub that after being forced to cancel...
by Aucklist | 30 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
Autaia – a Maori performing arts kaupapa (skill/value) – is opening up the world of Māori performing arts to students and enabling them to use this work to gain NCEA credits, Stuff reports. The programme was pioneered by Kura Te Ua (Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri,...
by Aucklist | 30 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
A new text scam is targeting worried parents, RNZ reports. The “Hi Mum” scam, which recently plagued Australia, involves a message claiming to be the victim’s child. The scammer claims they have lost their phone, and desperately need money. NetSafe...
by Aucklist | 30 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
The two frontrunners in Auckland’s mayoral campaign are calling for an end to postal voting and the investigation of an online voting option, RNZ reveals, in time for the local body elections in 2025 in a bid to address poor voter turnout. Both Efeso Collins and...
by Aucklist | 30 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
After a two-year pause due to Covid-19, Howick Rotary’s Bookarama sale of pre-loved books, puzzles, CDs and LPs is on again, Times reports. Bookarama is Howick Rotary’s largest fundraising event and requires a huge input of manpower. Money raised from Bookarama is...
by Aucklist | 30 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
Billboard vandalism “hits hard” for ethnic candidates in this year’s local election, Times reports. At the Park, Arts, Community and Events Committee on September 22, a discussion with the ethnic people’s advisory panel and councillors raised issues around ethnic...
by Aucklist | 30 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
The recent opening of the new Karekare Surf Lifesaving Club was celebrated over the weekend, with elected members, the local community, Te Kawerau a Maki, Auckland Council staff and rangers, and Mayor Phil Goff gathering to commemorate the occasion. “Karekare is a...
by Aucklist | 30 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
Mayor Phil Goff has given his valedictory speech at the final Governing Body meeting of the term, Auckland Council reports. “I didn’t know what to expect when I first came here,” Goff said. “What I encountered from council staff was unfailing...
by Aucklist | 30 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
After hitting a peak of nearly 11,000 in early March 2018, New Zealand’s prison population now sits comfortably below 8,000. It is the most dramatic reduction in prison numbers in New Zealand’s history. The Spinoff’s Jarrod Gilbert looks at the possible...
by Aucklist | 30 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
The government’s healthy homes standards are meant to raise the quality of over half a million rental properties, says The Spinoff. But tracking compliance is subpar – and that’s undermining democracy. This “accountability deficit” is also a “democratic deficit”,...
by Aucklist | 30 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
A German tourist’s trip of a lifetime around New Zealand has been brought to a screeching halt after all his belongings were stolen from his campsite, Newshub reports. Michael Kessel has been cycling around the world and had intended to cycle the length of New...
by Aucklist | 30 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
Lower speed limits are on the horizon for more than 1600 roads around Tāmaki Makaurau, Stuff reports. Auckland Transport’s board endorsed large number speed limit changes which will be rolled out between December 2022 and March 2023. The upcoming speed limit changes...
by Aucklist | 29 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
Outgoing Auckland mayor Phil Goff is finding life on the sidelines of a political campaign, for the first time in 40 years, an odd feeling, Stuff reveals. “You hear what’s being said in the debates (for the mayoralty) and you know a fair amount of it is simply...
by Aucklist | 29 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
Two Auckland institutions have been named in the top 20 best fine-dining restaurants in the world, Stuff reports. The Grove on St Patrick’s Square placed 13th in the world and number one in the South Pacific region, while Sails Restaurant on Westhaven Marina was...
by Aucklist | 29 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
Auckland residents claim they are being forced to hand over homes for the construction of a new Botany to airport route, NZ Herald reports. But Auckland Transport and Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency say landowners and occupiers can remain in their properties until the...
by Aucklist | 29 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
A retirement village has opened an investigation, NZ Herald reports, after a patient at their hospital was placed in a room for four days, with dead insects on a dirty carpet and toilet paper strewn about the bathroom. Her granddaughter, Jessicca Derrick, described...
by Aucklist | 29 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
Staff and customers at an Auckland salon were in shock after a car crashed into a parked vehicle, forcing the second car through the shop’s front window on Wednesday morning, NZ Herald reports. The second vehicle mounted the footpath and burst through the plate...
by Aucklist | 29 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
A man who died in a stream might have been saved if police took a concerned caller seriously, RNZ reports. Scott Tamarakei Matthews, 36, drowned last year in Meola Creek at Westmere, Auckland, after a drug relapse. On the morning of his death, Matthews was spotted by...
by Aucklist | 29 Sep 2022 | Auckland news
Auckland councillor Josephine Bartley has seen first-hand the destructive impact of problem gambling, RNZ reports, and is calling for changes to the way the pokie machine industry is regulated. Bartley is the deputy chairperson of the council’s regulatory...
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