When votes for mayor of Wellington were counted on Saturday, Kerry Prendergast had won by 40 votes. She has been the mayor for 9 years. However, when the special votes were counted yesterday, Celia Wade-Brown won 176 more votes than Kerry Prendergast...
Many of us have been watching on TV the amazing rescue of the 33 Chilean miners. However, we may be surprised to learn that a New Zealand inventor designed a medical belt that the miners have all been wearing. They wear the belt around their waist an...
Len Brown, the new mayor of Auckland, has plans to improve public transport in the Auckland. He wants a railway from the airport into the city, a rail loop through the central city and a railway over a new harbour bridge. The central city loop would...
The most interesting result of the local body elections was the election of the Auckland mayor, Len Brown. He won with 221,000 votes while John Banks got 161,000. Len Brown had been the mayor of Manukau in South Auckland. Now eight councils have beco...
Paul Henry is a host of TV Ones Breakfast show. On Monday morning, he was interviewing the Prime Minister, John Key about choosing the next Governor-General. The present Governor-General is Sir Anand Satyanand. He is a New Zealander with an Indo-Fiji...
A recent study by Statistics New Zealand showed that most people who migrated to New Zealand hoped to eventually become New Zealand citizens. Over 90% of South African and Pacific Island migrants were the keenest to apply, with 86.5% of South Asian m...
On October 1st, GST will increase from 12.5% to 15%. This is a 2.2% increase. At the same time, we will have tax cuts on our pay. Benefits will also increase a little to help with the higher GST. Listen to May 20th 2010 for more about tax cuts and th...
Who are those faces that we see in bill boards all around our town or city? These are people who want to represent you on the council, or community board, or hospital board. Every three years, we have a chance to vote for the people we want on these...
The World of Wearable Arts performances begin today in Wellington. There are 10 performances in the next 10 days, all sold out. The beginning of WOW the World of Wearable Arts is an interesting story. In 1987, Suzie Moncrieff, a Nelson artist and scu...
Every year, in mid-September, about 100,000 bar-tailed godwits return to New Zealand from Alaska. This godwit is a sea bird about 40cm in height. It wades on long legs in the mudflats at low tides on some beaches and eats insects, crabs and small pla...
