Porirua Harbour shown in 3D as coastal mapping project seeks community expertise
Porirua Harbour features in a 3D mapping project as LINZ invites organisations to help test uses for coastal planning and natural hazard modelling.
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New donor and transfusion recipient join Porirua’s ‘Bloody Good’ Night Market
Porirua musician Pati Taii has recently become a donor. Content creator Leasha Anthony needed lifesaving blood and plasma transfusions after the birth of her second […]
Porirua College supporters to get courtside seats
A $300,000 grant for gym seating at Porirua College will give whānau somewhere to sit while they cheer on students, with permanent spectator seating planned […]
Train rides for food donations as Porirua’s Cans for Christmas returns
Porirua families can swap a non-perishable food donation for a ride on Aotea Lagoon’s miniature train when Cans for Christmas returns on Sunday 22 November. […]
Porirua families invited to help reshape local social services
Porirua residents are being invited to help design a new approach to social services that could give local organisations greater control over how government money […]
Kiwibank opens seven-day branch at North City
Kiwibank has opened a new branch at North City Shopping Centre, giving Porirua customers access to face-to-face banking seven days a week. The premises on […]
Mother and son give blood together at new Porirua donor centre
Tawa mother Annabelle Fawcett has donated blood alongside her teenage son Mason at Porirua’s new donor centre, years after she needed donated blood following complications […]
Broadcaster Danny Watson, who grew up in Tītahi Bay, dies aged 73
Former broadcaster and television presenter Danny Watson, who grew up in Tītahi Bay and once worked behind the bar at the Porirua Tavern, has died […]
Volunteer firefighters tackle Aotea house fire during nationwide strike
Volunteer firefighters from Tītahi Bay, Tawa and Newlands were called to a house fire in Aotea, Porirua, during a nationwide strike by professional firefighters on […]
Three charged after Guns and Drugs seized in Porirua
Two men and a youth have been charged after Police seized four firearms, ammunition and suspected drugs, including around $10,000 worth of gamma-butyrolactone (GBL), following […]