5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (502+ words) The Government has announced it will invest $2.4 million across six community programmes which use sport and physical activity to support children and young people who may be at risk of offending or reoffending. The Reducing Child and Youth Offending project…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (140+ words) Two hundred contractors, consultants, and local authority staff working across erosion and sediment control are expected to attend a free hands-on day for the earthworks industry to be held at Whangārei’s Barge Showgrounds on Wednesday 16 September. The first of its…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (237+ words) Hastings Library has become the first in the country to partner with the Philippine Embassy to launch Te Kokonga Filipiñana, a new initiative celebrating Filipino culture, language and literacy. Around 70 people attended a launch event (pictured, below) at Hastings Library…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (337+ words) The innovation on display at Parakiore’s Sensory Aqua Centre has been recognised at recent national aquatics awards. The central city sports facility’s Sensory Aqua Centre is the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. It impressed judges at last…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (424+ words) An employment programme designed to get young people into work has reached a significant milestone, with 4,000 young New Zealanders now enrolled. Social Development and Employment Minister, Louise Upston said the Community Job Coaching programme, which was launched by the Ministry…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (471+ words) Auckland Council is inviting communities in Rānui and Henderson to put forward ideas that will help strengthen local wellbeing, connection and resilience through two new community-led funds. The funds are the next stage of a longer-term programme of recovery mahi…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (246+ words) A new work programme to strengthen rural data in New Zealand’s official statistics will better represent rural families, communities and businesses according to Statistics Minister, Scott Simpson. Mr Simpson said rural communities have vastly different needs. “A refreshed focus on…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (225+ words) The Government has announced $350,000 funding through the Youth Development Partnership and Innovation Fund to support The Polyfest Trust to deliver its three-month programme to more than 350 Auckland young people aged 12 to 24. That investment is being doubled to $700,000, through co-funding from…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (326+ words) A major public roading and three waters infrastructure programme supporting future housing growth in Havelock North has been completed, bringing the multi-year, four-stage programme of works to a close. Started in June 2024, the project has extended Hastings District Council’s drinking…...