Hibiscus Matters

Hatfields Beach kickboxer Chelsea Woodall, who has only been kickboxing for four years, will represent New Zealand at the WKA World Kickboxing Championships in Wales...

Cancer survivor Laurinda Howarth created a Facebook group to help other survivors last month, and already it has more than 200 members. Laurinda, 41, has...

Auckland councillor John Watson says that the recent announcement that Auckland Transport (AT) is changing the ownership structure of ferries, may lead to improvements for...

Government legislation permitting more urban housing density is causing controversy on the Hibiscus Coast. However, while people might imagine local real estate agents would be...

Catering for massive residential growth in the area, a new school, Nukumea Primary, will open in Ōrewa next year.  Earthworks at the site, adjacent to...

Originally from England, author Richard Woolley has lived all over the world, including in Hong Kong and the Netherlands, before moving to Ōrewa four years...

Engineer Thibaud (T-Bo) Lastennet spent the first 25 years of his career drilling into the earth’s surface looking for oil and gas. What makes this...

The City to Farm Composting Project (C2F) has been collecting food scraps from local organisations and using them, via compost swales, to improve soil and...

Enthusiastic Bridge player, the late Kitty McDougall, is credited with the formation of Hibiscus Coast Bridge Club. Fifty years ago, when Kitty moved to the...

Silverdale United Rugby Club’s fields were full of female players recently, when it welcomed the Harbour Hibiscus Farah Palmer Cup team for a training session,...