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Lifesavers face funding shortfall

After three challenging years recovering from severe weather events that devastated their clubhouse and surrounding land in 2023, the Mangawhai Heads Volunteer Lifeguard Service (MHVLS)...

Don’t ignore your gut feeling

By Dr Cameron SchauerGastroenterologist and endoscopist As a gastroenterologist, I often meet patients who have lived with nagging digestive symptoms for far too long. They...

Boaties urged to keep hulls clean

Divers are about to begin checking more than 2000 boat hulls around Te Taitokerau as the Northland Regional Council (NRC) starts its annual summer hunt...

Environmental realities will demand change

In the fourth and final of a four-part series based on Northland Regional Council’s State of the Environment (Coastal) Report, published in August, we look...

Education spearheads marine rule changes

Department of Conservation officers are gearing up to help boaties understand the new marine protection rules and boundaries in the Hauraki Gulf this summer, which...

Open day celebrates centennial

Ruatuna, the boyhood home of Gordon Coates – the first elected New Zealand-born Prime Minister who won the general election 100 years ago this month...

Different perspectives on This Land

This Land, the new exhibition at the Mangawhai Artists Gallery, showcases the work of painter Denis Bourke and photographer Joel Cayford. Bourke and Cayford regularly...

Final resurfacing closes SH1 over Brynderwyns

NZ Transport Agency/Waka Kotahi is preparing the highways for the peak holiday season, starting with the final resurfacing of the Brynderwyn Hills. The SH1 will...

Street revival party

Kaipara District Council, in collaboration with Mangawhai Heads businesses, is throwing a community street party to celebrate end of the Wood Street revitalisation works. It...

Charitable powerhouse relocates

A special celebration will be held at The Den in Maungatūroto on Saturday November 15 to mark both its relocation to 31 Hurndall Street East...