Resident Medical Officers (RMOs) who are members of the New Zealand Resident Doctors’ Association (NZRDA) union are to undertake a second strike action around the country. Photo: 123RF A number …
Hospital’s emergency dept staying open during strike by resident doctors Read More »
Striking junior doctors say they will not back down and district health boards must withdraw planned clawbacks to their current terms and conditions. Esme and Frey Battson, 6 and 4, …
Junior doctors on strike and ‘aren’t going to back down’ Read More »
News from Capital and Coast District Health Board Resident Medical Officers who are members of the New Zealand Resident Doctors’ Association union will undertake strike action around the country from …
Doctors on strike today; but hospital emergency dept staying open Read More »
Fifty children and adults will be receiving free shoes this Christmas to assist them with their health and fitness journey. Round the Bays Wellington – Photo: Ari Bakker / Flickr Shoe …
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) and Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira (Ora Toa Health) will meet tomorrow (Wednesday) in a last-gasp effort to resolve industrial action and prevent …
Last-gasp effort to resolve industrial action by 21 doctors Read More »
The Wellington Night Shelter is holding a Street Appeal next Friday, the first since the organisation opened in 1970 – and it is calling for helpers. The appeal is to …
Helpers needed for next Friday’s Night Shelter appeal Read More »
A march from Frank Kitts Park to rally at Parliament today is demanding that abortion be removed from the Crimes Act, and that free, safe, widely-accessible, publicly funded access to …
Midwives will rally outside Wellington Hospital in Newtown tomorrow between 10.00am and 12.00pm as part of a national day of action to support the Midwives strike. Midwives have been striking …
Wellington’s Ngarama Milner-Olsen was named New Zealand’s best personal trainer at the Exercise NZ awards in Auckland on Saturday night. Ngarama Milner-Olsen (left), New Zealand’s best personal trainer The Exercise …
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events today that are free or cost less than $20.00 (usually). You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And …
Wellington startup Dignity NZ celebrates its second birthday tonight, and reached another impressive milestone this week, with 10,000 pads and tampons donated to school girls around the country. The Dignity …
Wellington student Mana Williams-Eade, who spent most of last week pedalling on a stationary cycle, has raised $4745 for New Zealand children living in state care. Mana Williams-Eade, who has …
Campaign for tamariki raises nearly $5000 with 6300 minutes of cycling Read More »
The influenza pandemic that started in 1918 killed 757 people in Wellington. with most of those people buried in Karori Cemetery. This Sunday at the cemetery the 1918 Influenza Project …
Capital commemorates centenary of city’s worst natural disaster Read More »
This daily feature lists a selection of Wellington events today that are free or cost less than $20.00 (usually). You may want to check previous entries for recurring events. And …
The Go Green Expo, New Zealand’s Largest Green Living & Sustainable Lifestyle Show, is at the TSB Arena this weekend from 10.00am to 5.00pm daily. If you’re trying to live …
Dress in pink, put your walking shoes on and head to Frank Kitts Park tomorrow for the Pink Star Walk, and raise funds for breast cancer education, research and support. …
Porirua people are demanding urgent help after six suicides and a death in a car accident since June. RNZ story by reporter Phil Pennington @pjppenn phil.pennington@radionz.co.nz Porirua College principal Ragne Maxwell …
Porirua community demands help after six suicides: ‘It’s just too many’ Read More »
The Wellington City Mission’s Christmas Star Appeal launched today, giving you the chance to “be someone’s star” and help people in need across the Wellington region this Christmas. Mayor Justin …
The WCC is asking the public put forward nominations of selfless people with a commitment to making the world a safer place for a Council award. The Council’s annual Safety …
The royal visit by Harry and Meghan to Pukeahu will cap off a busy day on Wellington’s streets tomorrow, with the Ta Ara Tapere ki Pōneke – Open Streets event …
Royal visit adds to Diwali and Open Streets in crowded Sunday schedule Read More »
Do you wear a protective hat or seek shade to protect yourself from the sun? If so, you are part of a small minority. A research study by the University …
Sun-dumb Wellingtonians need smarts, hats, shade Read More »
It’s the little things that could take us down. MARK CUBEY gets bacterial. Humanity faces its most likely extinction, or at least severely depletion, by the myriad “natural” disasters caused …
The end of the world could have started this month – in the Hutt Read More »
HighLight: Carnival of Lights returns to Lower Hutt on Friday and has chosen Te Omanga Hospice as its 2018 charity partner, raising money to help with its rebuilding. The free …
Te Omanga Hospice highlighted as charity partner for Hutt lights carnival Read More »
Frustration is building in the disability community over able-bodied people using mobility car parks that have also been poorly designed. RNZ story by journalist Jonathan Mitchell @RNZjonathan jonathan.mitchell@radionz.co.nz Advocacy group CCS …
Frustration over disabled parking abuse, design and quantity Read More »
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released this week called for a steep cut in CO2 emissions within 12 years to avoid irreversible climate change. It highlights the …
Ten years of diesel buses – and increased emissions Read More »
Cloud accounting, mental wellbeing, social marketing, flu pandemics, and healthy places. Xero, one of the most intriguing companies in NZ (see Duncan Greive’s excellent piece at The Spinoff) opens its …
Support bus drivers, experience musical mayhem, join the next generation business community, find out more about the flu epidemic in the Pacific 100 years ago, and get positive about mental …
You all know what to do to prevent yourself dying in a fire, right? You may have your photoelectric smoke alarms up to date (daylight saving this weekend, good time …
A first-year Victoria University student was evicted from her hostel the day after she tried to commit suicide. Story from RNZ Checkpoint, 25 September 2018, by journalist Emma Hatton emma.hatton@radionz.co.nz …
Student told she couldn’t stay in VUW hall after suicide attempt Read More »
Language, construction, traffic lights and movement define your Tuesday. New Zealand Chinese Language Week (23-29 September) is an NZ-led initiative aimed at encouraging New Zealanders to discover Chinese language and …
Walking, tai chi, ace ladies, French shorts and synaesthesia. It must be spring. Today’s Tinytown Buggy Walk (every third Thursday of the month), explores Oriental Bay Parade. Park your car …
Sellers are out on the streets with the latest issue of monthly Wellington-based street magazine Regenerate. Jason, aka Regenerate Seller 24, used to panhandle at the Newtown Market, and is …
Unwanted pregnanacy? Genital warts? Chlamydia? Herpes? HIV? The biggest worry right now for sexual adventurers who like a bit of the old “natural” is a very old, very contagious STD. …
The Wellington City Council is reviewing the Liquor Control bylaw and has proposed some changes to the alcohol ban areas. The present bylaw expires in December and there have been …
Spring into Spring by stationary cycling, getting your PC a free tuneup, embracing healthy living, interacting with bees, and celebrating Vietnam Day. The Asthma and Respiratory Foundation’s annual Breathe Better …
Your high five for the weekend of 1 and 2 September Read More »
Collectors in character costumes will be volunteering as CAUSEplayers on the streets of the city tomorrow, helping with the annual street appeal for Wellington Regional Children’s Hospital. Cosplay collectors for …
Cosplayers become CAUSEplayers for hospital street appeal Read More »
A prominent broadcaster, a solo theatre maker, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and a partnership that ran a creative writing workshop for writers, the public and prisoners were all winners …
Diversity, partnership and innovation celebrated at Arts Access Awards Read More »
The Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2018 takes place tonight at Parliament, with a new name, and accolades being given to a range of individuals and organisations improving access …
Planned changes to the contracting of service providers in the Wellington region by local District Health Boards must include stability and certainty for home care workers and their client, according …
New home care services need stability and certainty, say unions Read More »
The Capital and Coast District Health Board reports that changes made last year to diabetes treatments are reducing the number of hyper or hypoglycaemic incidents (where blood glucose levels become …
Treatment changes get sweet results for diabetes patients Read More »
A new initiative is asking the public to donate toiletry and hygiene products for people in need. A battle against hygiene poverty was launched today by Wellington blogger and policy advisor …
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation has advised that its members have voted to reject the revised offer of employment terms and conditions from District Health Boards across New Zealand. This …
Thursday strike action likely as nurses reject offer Read More »