New kiwi chicks spotted as local population grows
Two new kiwi chicks have been spotted on trail cameras at the Te Matuku peninsula in recent weeks, offering an encouraging glimpse of another...
And the winner is . . . ?
The 2026 election preliminary results, released on 8 November, show it’s too close to call, leaving the country waiting to see if the next...
‘You vote? Mum doesn’t vote’
Well-known Waihekean Margaret Mills had to wait until she was 22 before she could vote. In the general election of 1949, the voting age...
Fuel price squeeze
This week’s survey from international polling company Ipsos found fuel costs have shot up the list of Kiwi voters’ biggest concerns. Petrol prices jumped...
Kororā numbers at Kennedy Point increasing
While local celebrity James, the juvenile New Zealand fur seal, appears to have now moved on from Waiheke Marina, the kororā colony who call...
Local board urged to ‘wrestle control’ of Mātiatia Ferry Terminal
Concerns were raised at a recent local board meeting by a former member who warned the proposed Auckland Transport plan for the Mātiatia Ferry...
The state of the nation is not a pretty sight
“Everyone seems to be struggling,” the New Zealand Herald headlined in heavy type on the front of Tuesday’s paper which was devoted largely to...
Hundreds gather to demand an end to bottom trawling in the gulf
Hundreds gathered at Oneroa Beach on Sunday calling for an end to bottom trawling in Tīkapa Moana/Hauraki Gulf, and urging political leaders to make...
