Tag: cockle bay
Three-year wait for justice
Two men charged with murder following a fatal house fire in east Auckland are set to stand trial almost three years after they were...
Roundabout ‘gauntlet’ irks drivers
A roundabout installed as part of a $300,000 upgrade to an east Auckland intersection is drawing criticism from motorists who say it's hard to...
Luxon vows to keep fighting for Botany
He became the National Party's leader after just a year in politics and now Botany MP Christopher Luxon is vowing he won't forget about...
Chemicals draw emergency response
Fire and Emergency NZ attended an east Auckland address when a person suffered a mishap while handling swimming pool chemicals.
A resident contacted the Times to...
Residents fight back against boy racers
Danny Wright remembers lying in bed the first night his family spent at their new east Auckland home and wondering if they’d moved next...
Cockle doodle don’t: Poachers anger local residents
A local woman has persuaded a group of alleged cockle poachers, to return the molluscs to the ocean after confronting them on Cockle Bay...
Jami-Lee Ross:Listening to Cockle Bay’s Brian
About a year ago local man Brian approached me, perplexed about why, over many years, no government department or minister has taken seriously the...
Beach protection unites Nash & Ross
Keen observers of New Zealand politics may know how unusual it is for an opposition Member of Parliament to work on a policy matter...
28 schools to put on their dancing shoes
The Howick and Pakuranga Dance Festival is being held once again this year at Somerville Intermediate from August 5-8 at 6.30pm.
The first two days...
Smoke testing begins in the fight against sewage overflow
Smoke testing has begun in Cockle Bay in a bid to reduce wastewater overflows.
This comes after local residents’ cries for help to stop sewage...
