Local Matters

Matakana newcomer Noel Edmonds says he has been humbled by the enthusiastic response to his free online Positivity Radio NZ project, with 22 stations already...

Chocolate Brown staff show off their award winning chocolates. From left, Susan Vize, Daniel Edwards, Janine Johnston and Hayley Watt. World Chocolate Day on July...

Grey Power national president Mac Welch will renew calls for an Aged Care Commissioner when he speaks in Warkworth at the end of this month....

The Warkworth Golf Club is trying to work out the odds of having had two amateur members make a hole-in-one within eight days of each...

Native bees, above and below, are much smaller than their honey producing cousins. One of New Zealand’s foremost experts on native bees made a plea...

Apiarists at the Warkworth Beekeeping Society meeting this month said they had been hard hit by wasps during the summer, with some losing up to...

New Zealanders are being encouraged to thank people who worked and volunteered through lockdown by making them a free morning tea at the end of...

Three years after cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis was first detected in New Zealand, real progress is being made in its elimination, with the number of...

Alan and Khim Hellyer. Keith and Jenny Trotter. Covid-19 restrictions meant finalists at the 2020 Auckland Ballance Farm Environment Awards were denied a night out...

Heavy wind and rain last week ‘tripped’ a transformer on the Transpower grid affecting power supply from West Auckland to Marsden Point. Skyworks Helicopters in...