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Ratepayer groups celebrate consent refusal for 71 apartments

Resident and ratepayer groups are ecstatic after commissioners refused resource consents to obuild a 71-unit residential development in Cockle Bay. Independent Hearing Commissioners last week...

Something for nothing? How about a Give & Take Second Hand Party?

We all love garage sales! What if you could go to a giant garage sale and everything was free? Cession Community Trust has come up...

Driver: I’m no hero

Arthur Moore is 82, resilient and full of hope. The Pakuranga resident has bowel cancer and, for five weeks, took two buses every weekday to...

Black Caps Blaster gives back

By Jim Birchall Black Cap Colin Munro has presented a signed playing shirt to proud sponsor of Howick Pakuranga Cricket Club, Ray White Howick. Howick Pakuranga...

Auckland take on Canterbury

The Auckland NHL Men’s and Women’s Teams will take on Canterbury at Lloyd Elsmore Park this weekend. “Come along and support our NHL teams in...

COMMENT: Another victory for people power

Great things are possible when concerned residents band together to take action on behalf of their local community. We saw that recently when a group...

All aboard for Father’s Day

One of the items in the model display at the East City Wesleyan Father's Day display on Sunday is a 5 inch (12.7cm) scale...

Party candidates bring in moon festival

Local elections are an exciting time with hundreds of billboards going up at every roundabout and corner of the street; party leaders, ministers and...

Rat expert visits restoration project

It’s not often a world-renowned expert in pest management, specialising in rats, visits a local school. That’s exactly what happened last week when New York-based...

Struggles of refugee in children’s book

  Refugees are vulnerable. Unlike immigrants they are “forcibly displaced” to another country, says Millard Rashidi, A Year 13 student at Ormiston Senior College. Millard arrived...
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