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• Geo wonderland

  THE WONDERFUL Waitaki district sure knows how to stimulate the summer road-tripper.

• Reflecting on a year of wins, gains and the occasional loss

  My final column for the year and this brilliant local paper.

• Festive flavour

  WITH CHRISTMAS fast approaching we’re getting our menus ready for pre-Christmas parties and the family get together on December 25.

• Goodbye and thanks for the memories

  Ihad brownish hair when I started Kāpiti News at the end of January 2001. It’s now more grey/silver.

• A bobby each way for better beef

  The production of low-carbon beef is set to accelerate after a study found younger dairy cattle produce almost half the emissions of older steers.

• Mum starts new business that works around her family

  Paraparaumu business owner Chelsea Gill was midway through a busy workday as a real estate agent last year, when something caught her eye in a window and made her heart drop.

• OPINIONIt’ll be a tight Christmas

  If you thought the silly season was already upon us the good folk at Stats NZ and Treasury have got news for you — another week of news, in fact.

• Community newspaper bows out on a high

  As this is the last edition of the Kāpiti News, it’s time to celebrate your community newspaper and thank people.

• Matlock, Lidia Poët both bingeable REVIEW

  Limited TV series: Matlock (8 episodes), streaming on TVNZ+

• Haere rā Kāpiti News — aroha nui

  Under usual circumstances I would be summing up the year, congratulating our incredible volunteer organisations, celebrating our business community and reflecting on a year full of successes, challenges and milestones.

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....

• 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...

• 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....

• 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....

• 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....

• COMMENT Collaboration of partners holds water

  We’ve seen the public conversation around the Government’s Three Waters reform ramp up in recent weeks as councils across Aotearoa have convened to formulate their feedback on the proposed four water service entity model. Kāpiti is no different in this respect but, while much of the conversation...

• Showman’s magical journey from shy kid to master illusionist

  Let’s begin at the beginning, how old were you when you first discovered magic and saw it as something you could do? I was 12. I was actually a very shy kid, very introverted, and I didn’t learn to read until I was 12. My mother was a school principal so she was really worried by this. She took me...

• 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...