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• My Heart

• JUST FOR KIDS

• Bailey’s guide to ageing

  Evolving: Finding Health and Happiness As We Age

• Find your voice and say it loud!

  Ruby Loud Mouse and the Ruru is a story about embracing who you are, and about celebrating all the differences among us.

• Councillors reveal financial interests

  They say home is where the heart is — and it’s clear where elected Kāpiti council members’ hearts are with the 2024 pecuniary interests report showing that more than half of them own homes in the district.

• Behind the pomp of death in Victorian era

  Black Silk & Sympathy

• El Rancho holds open day

  One of New Zealand’s largest camp and conference centres will be holding an open day this week.

• Gently does it

  WATCHING THE CLOCK as the working week passes, weekends spent catching up with family and friends amid the after-effects of the unsettling past few years; it is easy to feel the weeks sweep by quickly.

• Consultation begins on expressway speed limit

  Ōtaki MP Tim Costley is delighted with the announcement that the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) will begin consultation this month on raising the speed limit for the Kāpiti Expressway from 100km/h to 110km/h.

• Cancer survivor marks anniversary

  Rhiannon Nottage has a special anniversary looming. May 7 will mark 10 years since her leukaemia diagnosis.

Featured documents

• FTX crypto exchange collapse sounds grim warning to investors

  The collapse of the FTX crypto exchange has shocked investors. Behind the public facade of a so-called “safe” trading platform for digital currencies, appears to be fraud....

• Teenagers share their stories of

  An ordinary urban street is abuzz with foot traffic heading in and out of the Kāpiti Youth Support (KYS) building in Paraparaumu. Inside, lives are being saved....

• Winning short story competition entries

  Second placeJudge’s comments: Clever and intriguing — a quirky and exhilarating imagined future where books are elevated to their rightful status as high currency, but with the inevitable dystopian elements that come with extreme government control in a capitalist system. The originality and well...

• ‘I broke down and wept for an hour’

  Warning: This story refers to suicide and mental...

• Flow of information important as flow of water with reforms COMMENT

  The Government’s Three Waters Reform proposal is a complex beast and there are a range of considerations. These include the financial model underpinning the case for change, and the time and effort to transition to the proposed four water service entity (WSE) model....

• A natural history

  Established in May 1992, the Kāpiti Marine Reserve was just the fourth in New Zealand to be established, following the Cape Rodney-Okakari Point Marine Reserve in 1975, Poor Knights Islands in 1981 and the Kermadec Islands in 1990....

• Transmission Gully What you need to know

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• Teenagers share their stories of

  An ordinary urban street is abuzz with foot traffic heading in and out of the Kāpiti Youth Support (KYS) building in Paraparaumu. Inside, lives are being saved....

• Society challenges tender process, council responds

  The Kāpiti Coast District Council has responded to a press release by the Kāpiti Improvement Society which was critical of a council press release (published in last week’s edition) about seeking a lead contractor for the Te Uruhi development at Paraparaumu Beach....

• Winning short story competition entries

  Second placeJudge’s comments: Clever and intriguing — a quirky and exhilarating imagined future where books are elevated to their rightful status as high currency, but with the inevitable dystopian elements that come with extreme government control in a capitalist system. The originality and well...