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...
Kerrin Leoni running as independent after gang controversy
Tāmaki Makaurau candidate and former Waiheke High student, Kerrin Leoni has confirmed she is now running as an independent MP for the Tāmaki Makaurau...
Bottom trawling rises to the surface
It seems as if bottom trawling has gone from environmental activism – t-shirt slogans and signs tacked on Waiheke power poles – to an...
Safety concerns raised around young riders and powerful e-bikes
A subculture that has grown around e-bikes and like skaters, BMXers and boy-racers before them, riders gather to show off, modify their bikes and...
