Local Matters

Ten new walks plus all the classic favourites will make up what organisers hope is the best ever Mangawhai Walking Weekend for the event’s 20th...

The Kowhai Festival Committee is looking to mobilise as many people as possible to help make next year’s 50th the best one yet. It’s the...

Warkworth musician Andy Richards will give the first taste of his latest album live at Leigh Sawmill Café next month. The concert will be on...

One of New Zealand’s top competitive woodchopping and sawing events will return to the grounds of the Puhoi Historic Pub on Saturday, January 12 ....

Hibiscus & Bays youngest local board member, Caitlin Watson, is exchanging summer at the beach for a month doing volunteer work in Uganda. The 20-year-old...

The bi-annual Summer Magic Music in the Gardens at Couldrey House in Wenderholm will return next year to support the historic building. Couldrey House was...

Puhoi Axeman Bevan Gubb, from Wellsford, has been busy with his axes and is hoping to bring his best when he competes at the Puhoi...

After years of development, Puhoi Axemen’s Club has a group of teenage choppers ready to put on their best performance yet. Around 10 youngsters will...

Around 50 people volunteered to shovel tonnes of mussels into the sea early this month in a ground-breaking initiative to clean up the Mahurangi Harbour....

Well turned out horses will be replaced by strapping young farmers at the next Warkworth A&P Show on Saturday, March 16, as the Northern regional...