Auckland

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Would you rather have better services or pay lower rates?

What every Aucklander needs to know about the long-term plan

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The Cross Street Music Festival represented the best of Karangahape Road.

Karanga-a-Hape’s unique beauty was on full display over the weekend

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This sinking century-old arterial, built atop a rubbish dump, is getting a well-needed renovation.

Why is Auckland’s Meola Road closed this summer?

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A mana whenua-led project combines tikanga with innovative technology to bring a spectacular light show to a formerly uninviting underpass.

Waimahara: Myers Park and the reindigenisation of central Auckland

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Luckily there's a whole bunch of fakes ones that can be the first to go.

Hear me out: Auckland has too many suburbs

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Māngere is currently far from a cycling haven, but locals want to change that. 

How Māngere plans to become the cycling capital of the Pacific

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A new train station isn't the only upgrade proposed for the city's creative precinct.

Future-proofing the Karangahape Road neighbourhood

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‘Don't fucking come and talk to me, write a submission,’ reckons Mayor Wayne Brown. So how do you do that?

A dummy’s guide to having your say on the Auckland budget

Fiáin d'Leafy

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How I moved house entirely by bike

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Historic waterways reemerged during Auckland's devastating deluge – taking the city 200 years back into the past.

Auckland’s ferocious floods took the city back in time

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It was dark when Louisa Opetaia got out of bed and stepped into a rising tide.

After the flood: a Māngere evacuee recalls that terrible Friday, and what happened next

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Auckland mayor not available for comment.

Tory Whanau launches recruitment drive in Wayne’s world

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Launching his campaign office, Molloy took aim at his rivals, saying of Efeso Collins, 'He’d look beautiful mounted on that wall.'

Leo Molloy pledges ‘slugfest’ as first public poll for Auckland mayoralty shows dead heat

'Slugfest': Molloy and Collins neck and neck in first public poll on Auckland mayoralty

Viv Beck Election 2020

For the candidate seeking to cement the right-leaning vote, the mantra is clear: We don't talk about Leo.

Viv Beck and the plan to break the centre-left stranglehold on the Super City mayoralty

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With Auckland in the midst of an omicron outbreak, the world's largest Polynesian dance festival has gone virtual.

With ASB Polyfest going online-only, students are cheering on their school from the couch

Jemaima Tiatia-Seath

The public health expert tells Sela Jane Hopgood about her new role as the University of Auckland's acting pro vice chancellor Pacific.

What can you get out of Pacific studies? Just look where Jemaima Tiatia’s at now

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Every weekday morning, a group of Auckland city commuters fight to claim one of 10 free car parks. How long can this 'secret oasis' last?

It’s car vs car on the central Auckland street where parking is free

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Are long-awaited renovations to Tāmaki Makaurau’s ageing entertainment hub finally under way?

Something is happening at Skyworld

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An appreciation of the city that's forever changing.

I love you, Tāmaki Makaurau

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Jobs don't get much more important than this. Does your country need you?

Situation vacant: who will turn around the transport supertanker for Aotearoa?

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The best-selling American writer on the ideal conditions for reading, the true meaning of utopia and more.

‘Emily Dickinson made me into a writer’: Lauren Groff on the power of reading

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An early and strong contender for book of the year. 

Page-turning rural gothic: Ash by Louise Wallace, reviewed

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'I just remember seeing them live for the first time and thinking to myself: This is it. This is the reason. This is what life is all about.'

‘It was my Eras tour’: Meet the world’s biggest TrueBliss fans

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How will the recent wave of job cuts impact ethnic diversity in the media? 

The voices that vanish in a decimated newsroom 

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The first round changes to the RMA delight farmers and depress environmentalists

Gloomy vibe from infrastructure sector as RMA changes unveiled

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A look at the state of the last government’s affordable housing scheme, and what could come next.

Is KiwiBuild finally on its last legs?

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Review: Scotney's solo show is both sprawling and intimate, and a must-see.

Scattergun: After the Death of Rūaumoko reveals the frightening talent of Ana Scotney

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Is Olivia Rodrigo about to announce a New Zealand show? An investigation

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Welcome to the whirring wonders of one brain trying to align its actions with its beliefs in a system it thinks is evil.

Is it time for anti-capitalists to embrace shopping? An argument with myself

In our video series Kiwis of Snapchat, comedian Tom Sainsbury sources exclusive Snapchat footage of Kiwi citizens making the news. Today: Aucklander Gerald Cobb walks us through his early morning commute.

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Kiwis of Snapchat: Gerald Cobb, Auckland commuter

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Kiwis of Snapchat: Gerald Cobb, Auckland commuter

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AucklandAugust 17, 2017

Kiwis of Snapchat: Gerald Cobb, Auckland commuter

Click here for all our Kiwis of Snapchat videos.

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