A win in the fight against caulerpa as ultraviolet light proves successful
Using ultraviolet light to eradicate invasive caulerpa around Waiheke shores has proven successful according to the latest trial findings.
Advanced Aquarium Technologies led the trials...
Contractors shift tonnes of debris in pouring rain to clear slip in under 24...
Waiheke contractors pulled an all-nighter in dreadful conditions to quickly clear the main road after heavy rain brought a massive slip down over Ocean...
Margaret Mills on the Rainbow Warrior bombing which nearly killed her
Forty years ago today, on 10 July 1985, the Rainbow Warrior was in Auckland preparing for an operation to protest nuclear testing in the...
Young firefighter beats the odds
Waiheke’s Connor Coetzee recently became one of the youngest paid firefighters in New Zealand after earning a spot in the competitive selection for one...
All Black Stu Wilson’s island legacy
All Black #772 Stu Wilson died last month in Tauranga at the age of 70. The former captain and try-scoring sensation was mourned by...
The cost of exclusion
That whooshing sound is the sound of new laws flying thick and fast from the coalition government. Which isn’t surprising, in itself.
We’ve reached the...
Selina Tusitala Marsh announced as first-ever Commonwealth Poet Laureate
Sending an unsolicited rewrite of the Commonwealth Charter in the form of one of her iconic poems to Anne Gallagher, the current director general...
Tongue in cheek herpes campaign starring Sir Graham Henry wins award
When a media friend of Sir Graham Henry called to congratulate him for his part in winning the Cannes Lions grand prix for good...
