Reading Time: 2 minutes Onehunga and Māngere Bridge are once again connected for walking and cycling, with the opening of the new bridge in August by the Minister of Transport, Michael Wood. After years of being unimaginatively known as the New Old Māngere Bridge, it has now been officially named by mana whenua – Ngā Hau Māngere (Gentle Lazy ...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Urban intensification in Auckland breaks up native habitats and threatens wildlife, but creating ecological corridors may help to lessen its effects. For over 20 years, Hillsborough resident, Grant Taylor, has campaigned “largely on his own” to establish an ecological corridor in his local area. Grant is passionate about conservation. He has protested alongside Save Robbies ...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Senior firefighter, Toby Kerr, drives for nearly an hour each way to get to Onehunga for firefighting shifts, where he works long hours in the career he loves and has been working in for 20 years. However, with three children at home and a wife on maternity leave, he has picked up a second job ...
Reading Time: 2 minutes In August, talented Tongan songstress and musician, Emily Muli, was named Best Pacific Female Artist Award at the 2022 Pacific Music Awards. The 27 year-old was nominated for four of the 13 categories, competing against some of New Zealand’s top artists. Onehunga’s very own hip-hop veterans, SWIDT, also won three awards on the night for ...
Reading Time: 2 minutes A local with a passion for broadcasting has realised a dream he’s had for a long time – a podcasting network serving the residents of Onehunga and surrounding suburbs. Josh Couch, an award-winnng podcaster and radio producer, says he wants the venture to connect people in the neighbourhood with local issues. “I saw this ...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Marking your 70th birthday with a parachute jump over Waikaraka Park may not be most people’s idea of a fun celebration, but for keen sky diver Mike Jones, it was the only way to do it. The event, at the end of July, almost didn’t take place. Mike and his friends had to complete the ...
Reading Time: 3 minutes We hear a lot about the iconic native birds in our country, from the cheeky kea to the elusive kiwi, but how much do we actually know about the local bird populations in the rural and suburban spaces around us? To find out more, in 2007 an annual survey was set up to look at ...
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Onehunga trains have been terminating at Newmarket for more than a month now to allow City Rail Link (CRL) work at Britomart When the trains from Onehunga stopped going all the way through to Britomart, many commuters into the city were blindsided about the change. The trains have been terminating at Newmarket for more ...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Local kaiārahi (mentor), Calvin Devine, has been mentoring youth by reconnecting them to their culture using the age-old art of whakairo (Māori traditional carving). Through a programme called Mahinga Rakau, he has been collaborating with Year 7 and 8 students at Te Papapa School, to create their very own taonga (treasure) using wood and carving ...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jane Treseder provides male clients access to free good quality clothing to wear to a job interview, important meeting, or major life event. They say you never get a second chance to make a first impression, so Fix Up, Look Sharp director and founder, Jane Treseder, is helping men put their best foot forward. With ...