I would like to wish Times readers a very Happy New Year. I hope you have all enjoyed the festive period with family, friends and loved ones.
I’d also like to thank our shift workers and emergency services who work tirelessly through the festive period to keep New Zealanders safe.
We’ve got a big year ahead. Later this month the National-led...
It didn’t take long for one of Julie Patterson’s election signs to be ripped off.
“But it’s ok, I am told these things happen,” she says lightly, shrugging it off.
Mrs Patterson is fighting for a seat on the Howick Local Board, Botany subdivision in the forthcoming by-election.
She has a sense of humour, enjoys a good chat...and scones with jam and...
On the afternoon of December 21 when Ailian Su filed her nomination papers for the Howick Local Board Botany by-elections, she thought she was the only woman standing.
“I checked the council website and there were only three men contesting the by-elections,” she says.
Which is why she was surprised when she later learnt that two other women were also in...
The man who survived last month’s fatal Flat Bush fire has died, said family spokeswoman, barrister Deborah Manning.
Refugee Council of New Zealand secretary Kaileshan "Kailesh" Thanabalasingham escaped the December 22 blaze along with his 11-year-old daughter and 69-year-old father-in-law but was severely burned.
The 47-year-old escaped by jumping out of the window, onto the roof and across the neighbour’s fence.
He was...
Council workers who were asked to prune a tree instead cut it down after an apparent “cheeky” exchange with a concerned resident.
It prompted the resident Graham Pilgrim to contact the Howick Local Board.
A strongly worded letter addressed to Local Board members from Mr Pilgrim, president of the East Park Resident’s Association, Golflands, got Peter Young, the newly elected board...
Once again New Zealanders can rejoice at the calibre of their amazing sports stars judging from those named as Halberg Award finalists.
That the All Blacks could not make the final four for the team prize, after winning a record consecutive 18 tier-one tests before their historic first loss to Ireland in Chicago, will irk some rugby diehards.
However few would...
Reigning world cup champion Mathieu Biazizzo (France) and top Australian Lucien Delfour are among the top international talent taking on canoe slalom’s New Zealand Open near Palmerston North this weekend.
It’s the start of a big week for the sport in New Zealand, with the Oceania Championships in Auckland five days later at the new Vector Wero Whitewater Park in...
The Marie Raos Ray White HPCC Premiers beat Eden Roskill CC in a limited overs match at Lloyd Elsmore Park on Saturday.
HPCC 338/5 in 50 overs (Bill Walsh 50, Daniel Young 171, Liam Winn 67).
Eden Roskill CC 286/9 in 46 overs (Karan Banker 57, Barrington Rowland 115 *retired hurt, Jashanjot Bhangu 43; Cody Andrews 2/47).
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The Marie Raos...
The cause of the blaze which killed three family members in their home three days before Christmas is indeterminable, investigators say.
The investigating Fire Risk Management officer Phil Faidley says the cause of the fire “cannot be conclusively determined.”
The fatal fire gutted the two-storey house in Plantation Ave, Flat Bush. There were three survivors.
The house was engulfed in flames in...
The troubled upmarket supermarket brand Nosh – which has a store in Pakuranga – has been given a little leeway by its bank involving the sale of the business or winding the business down.
NZX-listed Veritas Investments, which owns Nosh Group, this week announced ANZ had agreed to extend delivery of a proposal until January 31.
Over the Christmas/New Year period,...