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The Armed Offenders Squad stormed a Waiheke address in an early morning raid to catch a man connected to last month’s Beach Haven kidnapping. Detective Sergeant Ray Fa’aofo says police carried out a search warrant at an Oneroa address at 4.30am on Friday morning. The address was housing […]

My initiation into professional writing got off to a rocky start. “What’s this shit?”, my former partner (a senior journalist) asked me, screwing an early attempt into a ball and lobbing it into the bin. It was a stinging introduction to one of journalism’s inescapable […]

Waiheke Volunteer Coastguard members plan to leap into the unknown to raise funds towards the purchase of a new rescue boat.  The Royal New Zealand Coastguard has launched The Lifesaving Leap campaign, with teams all over the country preparing to soar through the sky at 200km/hour to raise […]

Waiheke fashion fixture Junk to Funk returns for 2024 with a host of new categories and activities for the crowd. The sustainable wearable art event will be held on Saturday 11 May at Te Huruhi School. Island Waste Collective’s Denisa Kolouchova and Artworks Community Theatre’s Kashmir […]

The Department of Conservation has given a provisional green light for plans to bring kiwi back to Waiheke.  Save The Kiwi, Ngāti Paoa and Ngāti Tai ki Tāmaki teamed up last year to apply to the Department of Conservation for permission to relocate some kiwi from their […]

A car dumped on Awaawaroa Road was set on fire on Anzac Day. Sergeant Matthews says the car had been involved in a number of incidents with police over the past couple of weeks, then turned up abandoned at the end of Wharf Road.  The car was later moved to Awaawaroa Road, where it was The […]

Auckland’s relationship to central government is that of a slave and slave-owner, according to Mayor Wayne Brown, which makes him Auckland’s first mayor in more than three decades to openly cavil at the weight of financial demands and tinkerings from Wellington. He wants the new […]

Our pride in the valour and sacrifice of those who have served is not to glorify war itself, reflects RSA patron Mike Lee in a sombre Anzac Day address, reprinted below. We gather here once again this morning – as is our custom – to keep vigil and bear witness to the fallen. To remember […]

Hearty congratulations to Oliver Stretton-Pow, who was recently announced as the winner of the People’s Choice Award at this year’s Perpetual Guardian Sculpture on the Gulf. His successful work, Hard Graft, was inspired by the Cape Reinga Lighthouse, which the artist showed grafted atop […]

Iwi are seeking three temporary fishing closures in the Hauraki Gulf, including Waiheke. If approved this would prohibit the take of kūtai (mussels), kōura (rock lobster), pāua and beach cast tipa (scallops) on Waiheke for two years Fisheries New Zealand wants public feedback on the […]