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Huge donation to Sistema Aotearoa

Professional musical touring company Operatunity has donated $11,000 to the Otara-based Sistema Aotearoa. Sistema Aotearoa is a programme that helps children in need within the...

Better emergency supplies on the way for New Zealand

New Zealand will hopefully be on the receiving end of increasingly innovative emergency supplies following Chair of Civil Defence for Auckland Sharon Stewart’s recent...

Facing the longer-term challenges

Governments have a responsibility to face the bigger, longer-term issues for New Zealand. Already this year we have made significant announcements in areas like policing,...

Local recognised for anti-debt work

Becoming debt-free is no easy feat, but Howick resident Nora Jack has a unique knack for helping local families to do just that. Ms Jack...

New bins carry electronic chip

It was a call from one of the Times readers that set us thinking. The caller expressed concern about the new wheelie rubbish bins...

Art Salon invites artists of different genres

With a vision to make it an artistic and cultural hub, the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple in Flat Bush rolled out yet another...

Korean war veterans saluted

Torrential rain forced Korean War Veterans to abandon their final march outside the Auckland War Memorial Museum last week. The national body representing them –...

Touch Blacks goal in sight

At just 17 years of age, Kodi Barlow has been playing Touch Rugby for slightly less than 10 years. She started at age eight, playing...

Looking ahead to the next 30

A vision for the next three decades of development within Howick Village is being put into writing in a Howick Village Centre plan sponsored...

‘Like waking up in a river’

Tuesday night was a standard one for Grant Henson and his family. Like most of us, he went to bed listening to the rain...

Text to desex

Owners of pitbulls and other menacing dogs are being targeted in a new de-sexing drive aimed at reducing dog attacks on Aucklanders, particularly children. With...

Wild weather moves on

You could be forgiven for half-expecting to see Noah's Ark floating down the road at some point in the last week as continuous downpours...

Chch quake memorial spurs push for Mt Erebus air crash monument

Advocates for a national memorial for the 257 people who lost their lives in the 1979 Mt Erebus air accident have commended the organisation...

When the Police come marching in

In the late 1800s there was an old tradition of the Police Pay Parade that involved police marching up to the magistrate every month...

Burglar pleads guilty

A 26-year-old man has admitted a string of burglaries in the area. The man, facing 25 charges in relation to burglaries in Pakuranga, Howick and...
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