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Purpose-built museum for salvaged 150-year-old ship An architect’s impression of what the eventual exhibit may look like. John Street, right, officially handed the project over to Jim Wintle, left. A schooner that had been buried underneath the sand at Muriwai since 1865 will soon be housed in a purpose-built museum at the Historic Village in Mangawhai. The Daring trading vessel was on its way to Manukau when she became a victim of gale-force winds, which threatened to wreck her on the Kaipar...

Press Release – Auckland Pride Festival The first wave of the open-access programme from Auckland Pride Festival 2021 has just gone live, with an incredible range of community created events spanning right across the city. Extending to the full month of February for the very first time, … The first wave of the open-access programme from Auckland Pride Festival 2021 has just gone live, with an incredible range of community created events spanning right across the city. Extending to the ful...

Press Release – Auckland Pride Festival The first wave of the open-access programme from Auckland Pride Festival 2021 has just gone live, with an incredible range of community created events spanning right across the city.Extending to the full month of February for the very first time, the community has embraced the 2021 theme – ‘Karanga Atu, Karanga Mai’ – responding with calls of activism, celebration, inclusivity, representation and more. After a searing premiere at the NZIFF 2020...

Explore the Hokianga Harbour by jet ski, and by foot. Perched on a hill overlooking the Hokianga Harbour, and right on the Twin Coast Cycle Trail, this neat and satisfyingly symmetrical cottage has a big history for a building so small. Built in 1838 by the multi-talented Wesleyan Reverend John Hobbs, it was the venue for the second, and largest, signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on February 12, 1840. In a rare gathering, nearly 80 chiefs came together for long discussions, interpreted by Hobb...

Steve Braunias: The 20 best things of Auckland life 12 minutes to read Steve Braunias compiles his annual list of the 20 best things of Auckland life. 1. Best community testing centre There were many, many times in 2020 when you could have cut the tension with one of those long swab things used to test for Covid-19 in the upper and hitherto unexplored reaches of the human nose. Community testing centres – pop-ups, surgeries, weird medical units set up in godforsaken carparks...

Letters: Four-year term, churches, Donald Trump and school dentists 11 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 8 minutes to read Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield. Could our science-based approach to the Covid 19 coronavirus work in other areas? Photo / Mark Mitchell, File Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield. Could our science-based approach to the Covid 19 coronavirus work in other areas? Photo / Mark Mitchell, File NZ Herald Letter of the week: Kushlan Sugathapala, Epsom Followi...

Source: Auckland Council Safer roads and better-connected neighbourhoods are the outcomes expected from the Low Traffic Area projects currently in the first stages in Glen Innes and Onehunga. Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board was awarded a grant by Waka Kotahi as part of the national Innovating Streets for People Pilot Fund. The fund focuses on using Tactical Urbanism Techniques and provides councils with a 90 per cent funding assistance rate (FAR) as well as capability building support for su...