by CRN | Nov 3, 2025 | Community, Drop-Ins, Neighbours
Fancy a spot of time travel? Back to a time when neighbours were friends, vegetables appeared on the doorstep, school uniforms were passed from home to home, and there was a real sense of community. That spirit of connection was the focus of last week’s Community...
by CRN | Oct 30, 2025 | Emergency Plan, Papakura, Preparedness
Saturdays, 10:00–12:00 • Papakura Museum (Living with Floods exhibition)No speeches, just friendly, practical conversations with local Resilience Guides. Bring your questions — leave with one action you can take at home. Attend and enter to win valuable prizes! 2025...
by CRN | Oct 25, 2025 | Community, Papakura, Preparedness
Self-reliant households. Connected neighbourhoods. That’s real resilience. The truth about “being resilient” When officials say “be resilient,” many of us hear “cope harder, alone.” That’s not how communities get through a storm. During the Auckland Anniversary...
by CRN | Oct 22, 2025 | Climate Change, Floods, Papakura
When American Brian Collins swapped Seattle, Washington for Papakura he didn’t know he’d one day harness the power of Artificial Intelligence to help prepare his friends and neighbours for disaster. But that’s exactly what he’s done, using AI to gather climate...
by CRN | Sep 28, 2025 | Climate Change, Floods, Papakura
Papakura sits at the confluence of some of New Zealand’s most challenging flood risks. While Auckland’s wettest day on record—27 January 2023—made headlines across the region, it was communities like Papakura that bore the brunt of what happens...
