Here’s a couple of photo’s from Goina of Aotearoa.co.nz that show images of yesterdays fog.

Someone who bought a Lotto Powerball ticket on Auckland’s North Shore for last night’s draw is now almost $14 million richer. The winning ticket was sold at Magazine City & Lotto, Shore City and is worth a total of $13,854,687, with $13,290,012 million from Powerball First Division and $564,675 from Lotto First Division. Three other [...]

A woman is dead and a man is badly injured after a house fire in the Auckland suburb of Glenfield. Emergency services were called to the house on View Road at around 7.30 tonight. The man in his late twenties was found badly burnt and was rushed to Middlemore Hospital. The woman was found dead [...]

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001 PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS ISSUED AT 0540Z 26 JUN 2010 THIS BULLETIN APPLIES TO AREAS WITHIN AND BORDERING THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS…EXCEPT ALASKA…BRITISH COLUMBIA… WASHINGTON…OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. … TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN … THIS BULLETIN IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.  ONLY NATIONAL [...]

A Million Poems for Matariki is poetry event and celebration around the Maori festival of Matariki. Poet Michele Leggott and the Devonport Community Coordinator Maire Vieth have been visiting local schools over the last few weeks to hold poetry workshops around the theme of Matariki. They have challenged the children, and any adults who want [...]

Rodger Fox and his Big Band are coming to The Masonic, corner of Church Street and King Edward Parade, Devonport, for the concert “Return of the Fox”. The concert on Monday 28th of June at 7.30pm has no cover charge! So come along and enjoy – for free – the great music of this talented [...]

The Devonport Midwinter Swim is on this Sunday 27th of June at Windsor Reserve Beach, Devonport. Join in this hilarious winter family event with fancy dress and fun, this year organised by the Jervois family. The swim starts at 10.00am, and registration is free. Come 15 minutes early to register and go into the draw [...]

Ever wanted to meet the artist and ask them what inspires them, what their paintings mean, or just anything that comes to your mind when viewing artworks? Flagstaff Gallery, 30 Victoria Road, Devonport, has Artist in Residence Fraser Williamson in the gallery, working on his artwork on weekday afternoons, so come and meet him and [...]

HEAVY RAIN FOR AUCKLAND, THE COROMANDEL PENINSULA AND WESTERN BAY OF PLENTY. A broad trough of low pressure over northern New Zealand is expected to remain slow moving for much of Friday, directing a moist east to southeast flow across the North Island. Heavy rain over the ranges of northern Hawkes Bay and Gisborne is [...]

A sea slug survey around Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf beaches indicates there is a risk again this winter, almost a year after the first incident of poisoning from toxic sea slugs. Auckland Regional Council and the Cawthron Institute surveyed the immediate subtidal areas of nine beaches for the grey side-gilled sea slug Pleurobranchaea maculata. This is [...]