It is the local community’s best-kept secret. Nestled between Bond and New Bond Streets the Kingsland Community Orchard, locally also known as the Secret Garden, is flourishing thanks to being tended to by diligent locals.
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Wages are failing to keep pace with inflation, despite a tight job market.
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The International Monetary Fund has given the government an approving nod for its handling of the pandemic and economy, but warned high inflation and housing affordability need to be tackled, and caution taken in reducing support.
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With huge population growth forecast for Auckland in the coming decades, it’s time for the city to build infrastructure to match. But how do we create this new infrastructure on top of what’s already here?
In the mid-1850s, London was, to be blunt, ful… Continue reading
Students from local schools are participating in Albert-Eden Local Board’s Drains for Rain Programme.
Children from Marist Primary were first up, with Pasadena Intermediate and Point Chevalier Primary School taking part soon.
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Mixed media artist Cassandra Barnett (Raukawa, Ngāti Huri, Ngāti Pākehā) has been selected as Auckland Council’s 19th Artist in Residence.
Primarily a writer and poet, Cassandra also creates language-based watercolours, prints and small-run handmade…… Continue reading
The pesky midge fly population on the Māngere foreshore is at its lowest ever, thanks to the innovation of a Watercare environmental scientist determined to reduce chemicals in pest control.
Chris Garton’s world-first ‘lawn mowing’ approach involves a…. Continue reading
Auckland has officially been accepted into the World Health Organisation’s Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities (GNAFCC). Continue reading
Hospitality businesses say they have been thrown a bone with the rule changes that they fear they will make little difference.
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Air New Zealand has brought back 800 furloughed or former staff before the border reopens to tourists.
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