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Aucklanders urged to have their say on budget

Aucklanders are being urged to make sure they have their say on the city’s 2017/2018 budget. The four-week Annual Budget consultation focuses on issues around...

Guy Homestead’s new life

The old lady of the landscape, 116-year-old Guy Homestead, has new owners who want to give it a new lease of life, with the...

Fire raises heritage issues

A BLAZE at an historic homestead has left its owners and civic officials working out how the property, protected by two covenants, can still...

Home to relive rural past

A COUNTRY-inspired rustic theme providing urban children with tactile activities, such as growing their own organic veggies, will be the aim of the operators...

Push for tighter controls

A HOWICK resident who publicly campaigned to have Guy Homestead restored is calling for changes to legislation involving foreign ownership of heritage homes. Nick Neben,...

Graceful old girl rises from ashes

A MAN who lived in the historic Guy Homestead in Ti Rakau Drive for the first five years of his life was visibly overcome...

Time to bin the bags

Residents in the former Manukau City Council area will say goodbye to rubbish bags this year as Auckland Council introduces rubbish wheelie bins for...

Crash investigator forced to quit

THIRTY years after taking a long fight to vindicate the air crew who flew the DC10 in the tragic Erebus crash, Gordon Vette is adamant...

Kirsten hip hops to gold

AT ONLY 13 years of age, Kirsten Dodgen is already a world champion. The Elim Christian College student is a member of Hip Hop International...

Difficult for him to let go

IT HAS been five weeks since he resigned, but it’s difficult for Ken McKay, the former principal of Our Lady Star of the Sea School...

A shot at international fame

How does a young, local artist get commissioned to do a series of artworks for the 50th anniversary of the Chicago Bulls of the National...

Media gang story was wrong: College

Pakuranga College has denounced a media report this week claiming young gang members waited outside the school with weapons, seeking to attack a student. That...

All the world’s a stage

Young illustrator and graphic designer Jeremy Kyle’s mother couldn’t contain her excitement when she found a letter in their mailbox addressed to her son...

Toddler Hit-and-Run: Police Interviewing Man

A driver allegedly involved with the hit-and-run of a toddler in Flat Bush is being interviewed by police. Police have confirmed they are speaking to...

Michael Green: Educator, Mentor, Friend

Known as a pioneer in Macleans College’s English department and a literary genius in the eyes of students, Michael Green devoted 15 years to...
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