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This week’s community hero is Stuart Graham

This week’s recipient is Stuart Graham, nominated by Sarah Cooper, who writes: “Stu is in his 80s and still gets up every morning to go...

The price of citizenship – land of the… fees?

The price of becoming a Kiwi has just become a little more expensive. The fee for applying for New Zealand citizenship has increased by...

Flu hospitalisations highest in 10 years, Green Cross says

Even though winter is coming to an end, hospitals have seen a sharp rise in flu-related admissions with Auckland recording its highest weekly rate...

Cancer a gamechanger

It’s not a sentence we may expect to hear from someone who was told he didn’t have long left to live: “The most enlightening thing...

We’ve turned mental health into a waiting list

By MIKE KING, founding ambassador, I Am Hope Foundation A few weeks ago, I spoke to a young person who’d finally worked up the...

Plate expectations…

Papakura has been setting the table while welcoming guests from throughout Auckland and beyond. A new initiative by the Papakura Business Association, backed by the...

Getting daffy (and dilly) with it

Some of us are completely daffy about daffodils! Symbols of rebirth and new beginnings, daffodils have become synonymous with the Cancer Society’s annual Daffodil...

Having a calf? Send us your details!

As parents with children at our rural schools would know well, raising a little lamb, chickens, calves or kids, for that matter, is no...

Cartoon: a gift horse

Even the wealthiest of Franklin's suits and gumboots brigade need to be sure not to look a gift horse in the mouth as the...

Family at the heart of JB’s Flooring Xtra

The “JB” behind JB’s Flooring Xtra is John Bannister, who began his flooring career at just 15 after leaving Waiuku College. Starting as a...