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Free laundry service a 'load off' for families, first-time user says
10 Apr 2025As housing hardship deepens across Aotearoa New Zealand, not-for-profit Orange Sky Aotearoa has launched a permanent, free laundry pod in Māngere.
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Teen boy's hikoi for Māori wards
9 Apr 2025A 15-year-old boy from Whakatāne's walk for wards aims to keep Māori voices in local government.
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Iwi, mayors, tourism partners team up to finish cycle trail
9 Apr 2025Iwi leaders, local government and Māori tourism representatives are banding together in a push to ensure the final sections of a "nationally significant" cycle trail are completed.
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Proposed Nelson freedom camping ban useless without enforcement - locals
9 Apr 2025After receiving many complaints, freedom camping is proposed to be banned at three Nelson sites, but the problems won't go away without enforcement, stakeholders say.
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Mum recalls 'horrendous aftermath' of dog attack on son
7 Apr 2025The Auckland mum is sharing her story as part of Dog Bite Prevention Week.
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Partially blind man gets Kāinga Ora home after two years in emergency housing
8 Apr 2025Tenants will move in next week, helping reduce the number of Gisborne residents in emergency housing.
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How Polyfest is shaping educational futures for NZ's Pacific youth
7 Apr 2025Performers are also building confidence, sharpening academic skills, and finding belonging often missing in traditional classrooms, a tutor says.
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Mayor raises security concerns after abusive messages
4 Apr 2025It follows a meeting disruption from an upset member of the public.
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Legal bid to halt sewerage pipe works fails in Environment Court
2 Apr 2025The decision comes less than two weeks since an urgent hearing.
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Rural residents challenge BOP boundary changes
2 Apr 2025The Representation Commission is consulting on its electoral boundary review that will see changes to the Tauranga, Bay of Plenty and Rotorua electorates for the 2026 general election. Audio
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Cash shortfall threatens 125-year-old art gallery
6 Apr 2025As of 31 December 2024, the Suter Art Gallery had a net loss of $183,000, which is expected to climb.
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Two Northland Mayors face in-house challenges
5 Apr 2025Far North Mayor Moko Tepania and Whangārei Mayor Vince Cocurullo are both facing in-house leadership challenges in the upcoming October local elections.
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Canterbury farmers ask MPs to cut red tape
North Canterbury farmers want to help boost the economy, but say the red tape needs to go.
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Former ECan chair blasts councillors for 'acting like emus'
4 Apr 2025Environment Canterbury's former chair says his colleagues are ''acting like emus'' by allowing staff to continue planning work in the face of legislative change.
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'Kick in the guts': Homeowners' fight over cyclone-hit property rates
4 Apr 2025Landowners whose homes were submerged by Cyclone Gabrielle say it is unfair to force them to pay the exact same rates as they were before the destruction.
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Disabled people will be ‘further isolated’ if travel subsidy cut
3 Apr 2025A council plan to disincentivise a mobility service amid ballooning costs has been criticised by a disability group.
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Toilet talks stall: Cemetery loos divide Ashburton council
3 Apr 2025The decision on where to put new public toilets in the Ashburton Cemetery is on hold after a hung vote and the need for more information.
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Councillor resigns over 'grossly oversized' cricket ground
3 Apr 2025Hurunui councillor and former mayor Garry Jackson has resigned in protest at the "oversized" cricket ground in the Amberley Village Green.
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At-risk lizards to lose home to Canterbury's Woodend Bypass
3 Apr 2025Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is working with the Waimakariri District Council to a new home for Canterbury grass skinks found in the path of the Woodend Bypass.
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Cost-saving measures ridiculed by Tasman residents
29 Mar 2025Public toilets and rubbish bins are just some of the casualties of Tasman District Council's latest attempt to cut costs.
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Mangawhai spit loses massive quantities of sand
31 Mar 2025An estimated equivalent of 26,000 truckloads of sand has been lost in six years, according to a new aerial drone survey.
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The remote village fighting for survival
28 Mar 2025A local historian is among those advocating for the long-term future of a remote village situated precariously within an Invercargill reserve.
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Record pekapeka bat numbers counted in Marlborough
27 Mar 2025Record high numbers of long tailed bats have been captured and tracked during an annual count of the vulnerable mammal.
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ECan remains defiant on bus fares
27 Mar 2025Canterbury's regional council continues to push back against government pressure to raise bus fares.
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