Police have charged a 24-year-old Glenfield mother after her young son was found wandering the street alone at 2.30am. A neighbour discovered the four year old in Bayview on July 7 and notified police. he child was crying and calling out ”Mummy”. Police went to a nearby address and found that the mother had left [...]

The amalgamation of Auckland Councils into one new entity on November 1 will see the merger of many systems and services. Among them are the region’s libraries, one of the most utilised and valued services any Council provides. From 1 November, residents will be able to use their library card at any of the 55 [...]

North Harbour coach Craig Dowd believes Luke McAlister and other fringe All Blacks will hit top gear when the ITM Cup kicks off this week.A host of talent is set to play for provincial pride while also reminding Graham Henry of what he is missing. Dowd, who propped up the scrum 60 times for New [...]

According to the following report in the NZ Herald Michael Dobbyn who just a week or so ago was sentenced to 500 hours of community service and home detention for grroming two young boys had one at his house just days prior to his sentencing. Police were called to the home of a former school [...]

Forbes has issued its Top-10-earners list of musicians between June 2009 and June 2010, and only two of them, Lady Gaga and the Black Eyed Peas, have had abundant sales of recorded music. On top of that, only two of the acts pulled in more than $100 million, a plateau that Forbes speculates will not [...]

The North Shore City Council has approved the concept plans for a National Ocean Water Sports Centre in Takapuna. The sports centre will bring together sailing and other programmes into a single purpose-built facility on the edge of Takapuna Beach providing a base for high performance training programmes for elite water sports athletes and coaches. [...]

Name suppression has been lifted on a former North Shore primary school teacher who was today sentenced to home detention for sexual grooming and misconduct involving two underage boys. Michael James Dobbyn, 52, has today been sentenced to 12 months home detention and 250 hours community work for four charges against two boys who were [...]

As pretty as any picture. Especially one taken by Goina of Rangitoto on a beautiful winters day. If you want to see this for yourself then you will need to be up nice and early in the morning. Picture courtesy of Goina – aotearoa.co.nz.

The Supreme Court will hear one of the most significant leaky building cases, granting leave this week for the North Shore City Council to mount challenges against a ruling. The council will try to overturn a Court of Appeal decision which favoured leaky-building victims at Takapuna’s Byron Ave townhouses and Mairangi Bay’s Sunset Terraces apartments. [...]

A teenager has been sent to prison for three months after smuggling two small snakes into the country in his pants. Michael Luke Mullany, 19, is inside Auckland’s Mt Eden Prison after a judge told him “anybody who brings snakes into this country can expect to go to jail”. The sentence at Auckland’s North Shore [...]