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From art hikes to long lunches: Walking Festival slots filling fast

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The Waiheke Walking Festival is now just over a week away and while many of the walks are fully subscribed, there are still spaces...

Council considers request to make temporary aggregate work site permanent

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A Downers works depot opposite the Waiheke Community Resource Recovery Park on Ostend Road, has been operating on ‘temporary industrial activity’ consents for seven...

Island’s oldest banded dotterel dies at 25

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Waiheke’s oldest banded bird, a dotterel named Gook, has died at the grand old age of 25.  “It’s the end of an era, really,” says...

Group still in bureaucratic limbo after critical support ended

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After seven months of stalemate, waiting for a bureaucratic knot to be untied for the restoration of a critical support service, the families of...

All Kiwi kids deserve a future filled with hope

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Waiheke resident Liz Greive, founder of Share My Super, writes in the wake of last week’s Stats New Zealand child poverty data that shows...

Auckland Council’s Annual Plan out for consultation

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Auckland Council’s draft annual plan for 2026/2027 lays out  the mayor and council’s vision for the region over the next year, including $3.9 billion...

Stephen Pearson on target for World Championships

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When Waiheke resident Stephen Pearson competes at the 2026 International Clay Target Shooting Federation World Championships in Christchurch later this month, he will be...

Riders and youth make up majority of those injured in...

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Waiheke crash statistics show most serious crashes on the island don’t happen at an intersection, and a third of deaths and serious injuries on...

Reversal on commercial fishing in protected areas brushed off as ‘PR...

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National Party and Minister of Conservation Tama Potaka’s campaign manifesto to restrict commercial fishing in the Hauraki Gulf if re-elected cannot be trusted, says...

Two scoops to the trade wind; Island Gelato goes to...

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Waiheke’s own sweet-treat icon Island Gelato, co-founded by Ana Schwarz and Geoff Tippett, has gone global with two new stores recently opened in China. Geoff...

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