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Kāinga Ora calls in builders, clears Ponsonby tenants from five-year-old units
New paint, balustrades, privacy screens, walkway: New-ish Ponsonby state units upgraded.
Ponsonby Kāinga Ora complex fenced off for upgrade
A Kāinga Ora 15-unit, one-bedroom apartment complex in Ponsonby, originally constructed in 2019, has been vacated for improvements.
'Spoiled child': Ponsonby CEO charged over road rage incident
The pensioner's family say the CEO should stop acting "like a spoiled child".
Ponsonby’s Chapel Bar & Bistro: Who is claiming money, how much is owed
List of creditors just released shows IRD, bank, food and drink suppliers are owed money.
Man shooting pigeons sparks Ponsonby school lockdown
Police responded to reports of a person with a gun at around 10am.
Exclusive: SPQR restaurant site has been leased - who are the new operators?
The liquidators confirm new tenants will take over the iconic Auckland site.
The five biggest property sales in 2024 so far – including Sir Peter Jackson’s Lyall Bay deal
Buying and selling activity is continuing apace, despite the sluggish economy.
Biggest deal of 2024: Sir Peter Jackson’s links to $105m Lyall Bay purchase
Filmmaker has plans to build a film museum.
Two years after quitting hospitality, Luke Dallow talks new Ponsonby venture, SPQR rumours
From guerilla gastronomy to social media speculation, what's happening on Ponsonby Rd?
Ponsonby CEO accused of beating pensioner in road rage attack involving $430k supercar
The pensioner claims the businessman threw him to the ground and rained blows to his head.
The iconic Auckland restaurants that have closed in 2024
A round-up of recent closures across the city's hospitality scene.
‘We’re prepared to withdraw our children’: Scrap threatens preschool’s future
Parents not happy at board plans to make preschool in upmarket suburb ‘more inclusive’.
Ponsonby’s Chapel Bar & Bistro gets new owner
Kyle Anderson has bought the bar and says he's looking forward to a new Chapel chapter.
'Started to feel a nothingness': How Golriz Ghahraman explained shoplifting to judge
More than a dozen documents used to decide sentence for ex-Green MP have been released.
Floods to finals: Ponsonby Rugby Club's remarkable comeback
Club overcomes adversity as it celebrates its 150th anniversary this year.
Four iconic Auckland buildings get earthquake-strengthening funds
The Leys Institute in Ponsonby has been closed since 2019 due to cracking and bowing.
Auckland residents rally to find chook menacing suburb with 3am wake-ups
A poster has been circulating social media in a bid to discover the chook.
'More severe than Covid': Ponsonby Rd faces retail struggle
Once a bustling haven, Ponsonby Rd is now the quietest it has been in decades.
SPQR tipped into liquidation for tax arrears, owes more than $2m overall
The first liquidator's report is out on the popular Auckland restaurant.
Inside Economics: SPQR and what data says about hospitality crisis; Markets make sense of Trump shooting
Opinion: SPQR disaster a taste of hospo's woes; How will Trump shooting shake up markets?
Editorial: The familiar fall of SPQR is a lesson
OPINION: SPQR was felled by forces that seem all too familiar to the hospitality industry.
'Fabulously family': NZ model remembers nights out, secrets kept at fallen hospo hotspot
'I fell face first onto [a] table of screaming strangers, flapping around like a fish'.
'Heartbroken': SPQR restaurant in liquidation, doors closed to diners
'It is an extremely sad day for Ponsonby and we are devastated.'
Vale SPQR: Kerre Woodham, Noelle McCarthy, Jesse Mulligan remember infamous eatery
A Ponsonby Rd landmark since 1992, it's seen a who's-who of diners through its doors.
Vehicles seized, charges laid in 'enforcement phase' after Ponsonby gunman's funeral
Killer Beez member Hone Kay-Selwyn shot dead Robert Sidney Horne on Ponsonby Rd in May.
All Blacks legend's fight with council body
Sir Bryan George Williams at the Ponsonby Rugby Club in Western Springs.
Queenstown’s Westwood Group buys Ponsonby Central
'Considerable similarities between Ponsonby Central and Steamer Wharf in Queenstown.'