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Covid 19 coronavirus: Auckland power outages postponed as working and learning from home continues 3 Mar, 2021 01:21 AM 3 minutes to read Aucklanders not happy with planned power outages over level 3 lockdown. Photo / iStock Reporter, NZ Herald Vector is postponing planned power outages around Auckland, including in Papatoetoe, as many families continue to work and learn from home during alert level 3. It comes after a number of complaints from Aucklanders including residents in rural areas. Si...

David White/Stuff The stage is erected outside 3 Roseman Ave in advance of the Auckland Arts Festival. Company member Tafadzwa Chikomba said it was “very refreshing” to be funded for a creative project. Fellow actor Maia Ratana agreed, saying with the push of support from MSD it felt like the project was being taken seriously. The show, Love to Say Goodbye, will tell the stories of a community displaced by Kāinga Ora redevelopments. The two state houses being used for the production we...

Another man has been charged with the aggravated robbery of a restaurant on the Coatesville-Riverhead Highway in Riverhead.

TradeMe's Rental Price Index shows rents increased in every region year-on-year in December 2020

Press Release – Trade Me Limited Despite a tumultuous year, the national rental market finished 2020 as strong as it started, according to the latest Trade Me Rental Price Index. Trade Me Property spokesperson Logan Mudge said the national median weekly rent increased by 4 per cent when compared with December 2019 to $520. “Summer is typically when we see the rental market peak, and last month was no exception. “December marks the third month we saw rents increase by 4 per cent in a row, ...

Thursday, 28 January 2021, 7:25 am Despite a tumultuous year, the national rental market finished 2020 as strong as it started, according to the latest Trade Me Rental Price Index. Trade Me Property spokesperson Logan Mudge said the national median weekly rent increased by 4 per cent when compared with December 2019 to $520. “Summer is typically when we see the rental market peak, and last month was no exception. “December marks the third month we saw rents increase by 4 per cent in a row,...

Green Party co-leaders Marama Davidson and James Shaw. Photo: RNZ Parliament had wrapped up a week earlier when co-leaders Marama Davidson and James Shaw sat down for their end of year interviews. Like everyone, 2020 has been a huge year for the Greens, from being part of the government response to a global pandemic, making it back to Parliament after the election with new MPs, but losing power in the process. Even as the year drew to a close, Shaw still didnt feel like the election had quite ...

However, before this could go ahead members of the community started camping on the land to register their opposition to the proposed development. The occupation grew steadily, and it was not long before the Prime Minister buckled to the pressure by calling in consultants to advise on the situation, with the taxpayer to foot the bill. So far $150,000 has been spent on consultants, with the recommendation unlikely to have been anything else other than what price the Crown should pay to exit t...

By Renuka Sadanandan Sri Lankan-born Madushin Amarasekera wins a major architectural award in New Zealand for his inspired remodelling of a modest state house into a multi-generational family homeView(s): It was a project very close to his heart. When he embarked on remodelling a modest 1940’s state house in Mount Roskill, Auckland into a home for his extended family, architect Madushin Amarasekera channelled a concept rather unfamiliar to his adopted country but one more common in ...

Thats a cost brewers of no-alcohol beer do not have to shoulder. Big brewers Lion and DB both said it cost more to make zero alcohol beer than alcoholic beer, but neither would say whether it cost 20 per cent more. STUART GRANGE/Stuff Alcohol Healthwatch executive director Dr Nicki Jackson says zero alcohol beer should cost less than beer with alcohol. Bridget MacDonald from the Alcohol Beverages Council, a political lobby group for drinks makers, said it did. “Having no excise tax on a z...