Darren Blomfield's cartoon takes a look at the Mellons Bay infrastructure.
Locals were this week venting about sub-standard broadband installations by infrastructure provider Chorus in Mellons Bay.
Complaints include use of electrical tape and duct tape on fibre cabling, and running of cable along fencing.
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 from basketball legend Michael Jordon.
“Look, who you’ve got a letter from!” she piped up, as she handed over the sealed envelope to her son, 23, in the middle of the ‘Times’ interview.
Her excitement was contagious...
Clare White, the mother of 17-year-old schoolboy Josh Martin who was killed following a collision near his school in October, was so distraught following his death she considered ending her own life.
Mrs White (O’Hanlon) asked in an emotional victim impact statement this afternoon in the Manukau District Court how she could ever expect to explain the extent to which...
The Armed Offenders Squad was dispatched to Golflands today after a threat was made on Facebook, police have confirmed.
"This morning police visited an address in response to a threat made via social media.," a police spokesman told the Times.
"They have since found the threat to be a hoax."
Posts on a local social media site speculated that there had been...
The latest from Blomfield (Darren Blomfield) following our story on March 19 of Eastern Beaches median residential dwelling prices reaching a heady $1m in April.
A local man has admitted a charge of careless driving causing the death of popular teenager Joshua Martin.
A grieving mum believes the man who admitted careless driving which caused the death of her son should be jailed.
Clare White was at the Manukau District Court on Thursday when 46-year-old Pakuranga man Josef Kadlcik pleaded guilty to the charge relating to...
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 erroneous news story – published in the NZ Herald - was wrong, the school claims. That paper’s story follows revelations in the Times last week that a group of drunk teens calling themselves the Green Gang...
Police are looking into an incident in which drunk teens – possibly from a gang – are alleged to have terrorised a family in Northpark.
A post on the Not So PC East Auckland Facebook page said: “Last night (Thursday night, Northpark) at about 7.40pm we had a knock at our door from the “Green Gang” looking for my 15-year-old...
Helping society’s forgotten women is something a committed pair of Howick and Botany residents have in the bag – the pikau bag.
Mary Ann France and Kim Callard formed Comfort Kidz, an organisation dedicated to helping traumatised children, and they have harnessed the energies of prisoners and retirees to help them do it.
Male prisoners at Northland’s Ngawha have been taught...
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 Basketball Association (NBA), that too sitting at his home studio in Eastern Beach?
For Jeremy Kyle, the 23-year-old commercial artist and graphic designer, it began with saying yes to opportunities.
Working on global campaigns with powerhouse brands...