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Thursday, April 17, 2025

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Environment

Let’s save the Northern New Zealand Dotterel

By Times' Junior Journalist Alina Jiang Be a hero! Let’s make sure this bird lives on forever! Ever since April 1773, the Northern New Zealand...

Keen young gardeners pass on their knowledge

An east Auckland school is inspiring its pupils to become avid gardeners in the hope they take what they learn home and help their...

Power lines going underground in coastal suburb

Power lines are heading underground in large parts of Beachlands on the Pohutukawa Coast. The work is set to begin there this month on a...

Eye on Nature prizes to be awarded

Winners of an annual environmentally focused arts competition for children are announced this Saturday. Eye on Nature Creative Arts is an art contest for east...

Deadline approaches for storm-affected properties

By Laura Kvigstad, Auckland Council reporter, funded by New Zealand on Air Auckland Council is urging storm-affected homeowners to register for its categorisation scheme...

Littering poses “big problem” for our community

By Times Junior Journalist Tinkle Ding Imagine, you were going on a nice stroll one day, then you spotted some wrappers on the ground....

Protestors seek to highlight dolphin deaths

A group of people have today carried out a protest action at the local electorate office of Prime Minister and Botany MP Christopher Luxon...

Councillor slams $20 million water deal with iwi

By Laura Kvigstad, Auckland Council reporter, funded by New Zealand on Air Howick ward councillor Maurice Williamson is demanding answers over Watercare’s handling of...

Doing our part to tackle waste and illegal dumping

By Damian Light, Howick Local Board chairperson We’re aware of the issues with illegal dumping which is especially bad in Flat Bush. It’s awful seeing...

Fish trading company fined $360,000, employee jailed

An Auckland fish trader has been fined $360,000 and an employee jailed for three years and seven months for receiving and distributing thousands of...

Let’s save innocent animals from rats!

The Times is publishing stories in our digital publication and on our website that are written by local youngsters in our Junior Journalist initiative. Here’s a...

Local reserve’s friends celebrate, commiserate

A 25 year mission to revitalise a local reserve is being celebrated even as the Friends of Mangemangeroa mourn the passing of the group’s...

Rubbish piling up as residents plead for bins’ return

East Auckland residents are pleading for rubbish bins removed from the community as part of a $10 million cost-cutting exercise to be returned. But before...

Dolphins seen swimming at Bucklands Beach

The Times is giving local youngsters who want to write stories – which we’ll publish on our website and in our new digital publication –...

Eel conservation inspires top art prize winner

By Carlos Norton, AUT Journalism Student This year’s Estuary Art and Ecology Awards has embraced its ecological theme more than ever, with Matthew Dowman’s...
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