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‘People are heartbroken seeing the condition of their houses and roofs’

Residents of New Zealand’s largest city say people are ‘heartbroken’ at fresh damage wreaked by storm

Mike Lee proposes a way out of Auckland's light rail mess in part two in a series on the beleaguered project.

Mike Lee looks at how a sensible project with no funding was flipped to become the opposite in part one of a two-part look at Auckland's light rail project.

Secret plans for the location of Amazon Web Services' new cloud computing facility reveal the planned removal of a dabchick nesting site, reports Jonathan Milne.

In a paddock north of Auckland lies a unique piece of infrastructure that's exposed the short-sighted nature of scientific funding in New Zealand. 

New Zealand is a small country that suddenly has big ideas about public transportation projects for its largest city. In February, the physical work began for a partially tunnelled light rail line under the Auckland CBD that will eventually connect to the airport. The project could ultimately have a price…

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

Jungle Warfare by Ellen Rykers: Auckland is the weediest city in the world - but its citizens are fighting back.

Now THAT'S drag, baby.

Last weekend, anti-trans campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, better known as Posie Parker, arrived to speak at a rally in Auckland, which was surrounded by supporters of trans rights. During this rally and counter-protest, Keen-Minshull was doused in tomato juice, while other reports claim eggs were also thrown at her.