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Raven stretches her wings

A 10-year-old from Millwater, Raven Advincula, has been selected to represent NZ with the Black Stars team at an international performing arts championship later this...

Brothers take ski titles at Surf Champs

Red Beach Surf Lifesaving Club’s Kalani and Kaiha Gilbertson were both in top form when they powered home to win their respective surf ski finals...

Closest thing to Robbie comes to Coast

It’s possible that Coasties might see someone who is a dead ringer for pop superstar Robbie Williams hanging out in Whangaparāoa this month. In fact,...

Community provides rapid crisis response

A crisis brings out the best in people, and so it proved as Hibiscus Coast residents moved in fast to help each other out in...

Coast’s geological wonders revealed

As we spend time at Coast beaches, it is possible to take the rocks, cliffs and other natural structures around us for granted.  However, it...

Colourful Coast cat colour-in

When the weather was making indoor entertainment for the kids a must, one Red Beach mother and her daughter put their creative talent to work,...

Turn New Year goals into long term habits

Personal trainer and Les Mills instructor Claudie Fowlie started in the fitness industry, 4-5 years ago, at 17 years old. She works at Stanmore Bay...

Where’s wētā – in search of sanctuary’s newest population

At first sight, the number of wētāpunga (giant wētā) detected at Shakespear Open Sanctuary four months after around 220 individual insects were released there is...

Singer performs swansong

At the age of 83, Jocelyn Stubbing retired from entertaining residents of Evelyn Page village with a final performance on December 15. She has been...

Veteran’s 100-year milestone

Ernest Davenport’s 100th birthday on January 4 included a special morning tea with family. A further celebration to mark the occasion is to be held...