Tag: News
Accused takes stand in Pakuranga murder trial
The man who shot Pakuranga mother of two Chozyn Koroheke has admitted he could at least be guilty of manslaughter.
Turiarangi Tai is on trial...
Stem cell treatment “best thing I ever did”
Faye Braddock is a very different woman to the one she was two months ago.
When the Times last spoke to her in late March,...
Running for Mental Health
If you know me at all you’ll know I’ve never been an athletic person. It’s not entirely through lack of trying- I’m very much...
Unfinished business
Barry Kirker, Labour's candidate in Pakuranga in this month's general elections, fancies his chances of increasing both the party and candidate vote in a...
Hands-on police operation showing signs of success
You may have found Ormiston Police Station unusually quiet yesterday.
Instead, you would have seen more police, from frontline officers to the area commander, out...
Putting a unique spin on the 40 Hour Famine
Macleans College students Wilhelm Muller, Matthew Wilson and Waldo Singleton have put a unique spin on World Vision: 40 Hour Famine by cycling from Auckland to Rotorua, covering a distance of 400km in 40 hours.
Snow in east Auckland?
Last Thursday, east Auckland experienced clouds, rain, hail, thunder and lightning and...snow?
One Mellons Bay resident was shocked to discover a load of what looked...
Local students get immersed in incredible science
Students from east Auckland schools spent a day immersed in all things science at the University of Auckland’s Incredible Science day this week.
Featuring a...
Man rescued from old bank vault
It's not often emergency services have to enlist the help of safe crackers, but there's a first time for everything as fire crews found...