Press Release – Ngati Whatua o Orakei
Ngati Whatua o Orakei Maori Trust Board received a Special Recognition Award for Excellence in Tribal Strategic Planning from the University of Auckland today. Read more »

Press Release – Auckland Council
A fashion show with a twist is set to take centre stage at the Mangere Arts Centre on Friday May 4. Read more »

Media Release – New Zealand Labour Party
National’s prison privatisation plan needs serious rethinking after failing to meet basic performance requirements at Mt Eden prison, Labour says. Read more »

Press Release – Newmarket Business Association
Registrations for this year’s Newmarket Young Fashion Designer of the Year competition are now open. Read more »

Media Release – Transport Accident Investigation Commission
The Transport Accident Investigation Commission has opened an inquiry into yesterday’s failure at the National Train Control Centre in Wellington, which led to a temporary shutdown of the Auckland suburban rail network. Read more »

Press Release – PGFNZ
The Problem Gambling Foundation says the proposal by SkyCity to introduce host responsibility initiatives is a move to make the ‘convention centre for pokies deal’ more palatable. Read more »

Press Release – Employers And Manufacturers Association
Though Auckland is a world class city for livability, the business environment is being short changed, the Employers and Manufacturers Association (EMA) told the hearing on Auckland Council’s long term plan today. Read more »

News from New Zealand Police at 3.31pm
Savill Drive in Mangere East has been closed between James Fletcher Drive and Massey Road as Fire Service deal with a chemical spill. Read more »

Press Release – Housing New Zealand
All of the first 24 houses being removed from Glen Innes will be refurbished and re-used says Graham Bodman, Housing New Zealand programme manager. Read more »

Press Release – Pedigree
New ground-breaking technology developed in New Zealand is set to revolutionise the movie-going experience and is being brought to life by a charity aimed at helping abandoned Kiwi dogs. Read more »

Media Release – New Zealand Labour Party
Young leaders at Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate Senior School in Otara were challenged by Manukau East MP Ross Robertson to prove wrong the public’s negative perceptions of South Auckland. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk
Downer EDI said it has won a series of contracts worth more than NZ$224million with Auckland Council and its transport company for maintaining roads, parks, playgrounds and sports fields and a wide range of buildings from council offices to residential properties. Read more »

Media Release – Kiwi Income Properties Limited
Kiwi Income Property Trust has entered into an unconditional contract to sell Beca House at 21 Pitt Street, Auckland. Read more »

Media Release – Ngati Whatua
After 14 years as Chief Executive of the Ngati Whatua o Orakei Maori Trust Board, Tiwana Tibble has decided the time is right to move on. Read more »

Press Release – Anne Wentworth
John Wentworth celebrates his one-hundredth birthday on Monday. Read more »

Press Release – University of Auckland
Central Auckland will take on a celebratory air next week as thousands of graduates and their families converge for The University of Auckland’s Autumn Graduation. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Defence Force
The nearly 75 years of wartime and peacetime service of personnel based at Hobsonville Air Force Base is to be recognised through a new memorial. Read more »

Press Release – Auckland Council
Multi-disciplinary Auckland artist Askew One has been honoured under the Los Angles Sister Cities programme for his role as a mentor in contemporary public art. Read more »

News from NZ Police
Balmoral Police want help identifying a young woman found in the Tay Street Reserve, Western Springs, at 7am on Thursday morning.
She’s possibly a Polynesian aged between 17 and 25, although she had no identification documents on her when found. Read more »

Media Release – New Zealand Defence Force
The wife of a late army veteran will complete a cancer charity walk from Auckland to Christchurch on May 1 as part of Sisters in Arms, retracing the steps of her husband who made the walk five years earlier. Read more »