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Fifteen-storey apartment towers could soon rise around select Auckland train stations in keeping with new zoning plans councillors will consider sending out for public feedback later this week.The newly-released draft plans will also clamp down on new housing in areas deemed to be flood or otherwise hazard-prone. Councillors will consider releasing the draft plan and maps for public consultation and submissions at a Thursday meeting. The Government required Auckland’s housing plan change must be notified by October 10.The council’s policy and planning director, Megan Tyler, described the draft as retaining earlier plans’ focus on housing around transport and town centres…
Public Service Minister Judith Collins rejects that her comments regarding teachers’ pay has harmed their relationship with the Government.Secondary school teachers will strike on Wednesday after they were offered a 1% pay increase.The Government condemned the industrial action the day it was announced on Wednesday last week.In a statement at the time, Education Minister Erica Stanford and Collins said the average salary for secondary school teachers had increased to $100,000 compared to $93,000 three years ago.But in the press conference last week, Collins incorrectly said on average a teacher with 10 years’ experience was on an annual salary of around…
A Richmond retailer says rules banning advertising flags from the street would cut his revenue by hundreds of dollars.Coffee on Queen owner Matt Redwood said his flag was “essential” to his business.”At the moment, 90% of our customers that I’ve asked how they know we’re open, they go: ‘we see the flag’.”The Queen St café opens at 4.30am, and putting the flag on the edge of the footpath brings in about $200–300 a day, he estimated, and ensured the employment of up to four workers.However, Tasman District Council’s new bylaw for public places, adopted in November 2024, bans their use.Last…
Foreign Minister Winston Peters is celebrating former Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard being replaced as Ambassador to Ireland.Peters named Angela Hassan-Sharp for the role in a statement about 1pm today.Asked about Mallard, he said “you know that famous song from the Seekers? Carnival’s over”.He said Mallard was “coming home and he’s coming home early”.Asked if he had a reason to bring Mallard home, he said “yes, I do”.”It’s a circus where, instead of looking at the national interest, you’ve got people like Jacinda Ardern appointing politicians to important jobs, and that should not be happening.”Their performance will never be…
By Euronews Published on 19/08/2025 – 16:24 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT A false video is circulating on social media that purportedly shows United States President Donald Trump berating the Irish government for its immigration policy. The video appears to show Trump blasting Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin and Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Harris as “weak and useless leaders”, who have supposedly allowed their country to be invaded by criminals. The speech contains a rambling, xenophobic tirade against the pair and their government, with Trump even appearing to call their actions “evil”. “I will punish, humiliate and belittle you, for your sick globalist…
A man has been arrested after a car was stolen in Hastings this morning, going on to collide with other vehicles and heading down the wrong side of a road.Inspector Angela Hallett said the man allegedly stole the car from outside a business on Taradale Rd at around 8.30am. “Multiple 111 calls reporting dangerous driving” were received by police as well as “numerous” collisions with other vehicles. Officers followed the phone calls and trail of damage to the driver’s location. The stolen vehicle was then seen by an officer on Omahu Rd, being driven on the wrong side of the…
A couple who allegedly tried to haul a trolley full of stolen groceries onto a train in Auckland have been stopped in their tracks.Around 10.15am on Monday, police were called to the Pukekohe Train Station after security prevented a man and a woman attempting to get on a train with a trolley full of allegedly stolen groceries.Inspector Matt Hoyes said the man allegedly tried to hide the trolley in a toilet cubicle when officers arrived.”We have observed this male’s actions on CCTV taking the trolley into the toilet block,” Hoyes said. “Staff have recovered the trolley of groceries from inside…
Former Finance Minister Grant Robertson is standing by his economic spending decisions, and rejects the suggestion the last Labour government did not have enough real-world experience.He says Labour was “absolutely” ready for government when Winston Peters chose the party over National in 2017, and the high volume of working groups was a result of wanting to include people in the areas “where there was big change required”.Robertson was being interviewed by RNZ to promote his new book.Covid-19 spending: ‘Rewriting of history’Grant Robertson and Jacinda Ardern in 2014. (Source: Getty)He says Labour’s election loss in 2023 was primarily because it was…
Investigations are underway after several shootings in Levin over the last two days, including one resulting in a man showing up at a healthcare centre with a gunshot wound. Police have upped their presence in the region, following what they described as “brainless violence”. A man was taken to Palmerston North Hospital in a serious condition after he showed up at a healthcare centre with a gunshot wound to his thigh. Manawatu Area Commander Inspector Ross Grantham said enquiries into the incident were ongoing. The other incidents involved properties being shot at. At 8.55am yesterday, police were called to Hinemoa…
Two environmental activists have been arrested and charged after spending three weeks in a coal bucket at the Stockton Mine on the West Coast.Police said the pair, who were due to appear in court tomorrow, deviated from an agreed plan for coming down – and in turn – were stuck in a tree.They had been protesting against mining at the Denniston Plateau, about 30 minutes from Westport.Protester Rach Andrews told 1News: “We can’t keep destroying our wild places. You know, the Denniston Plateau is a unique, beautiful landscape where, you know, a massive array of flora and fauna have adapted…