Local Matters

Snells Beach’s water treatment plant would fall foul of new rules outlined in a proposed Water Services Bill. Watercare has confirmed that the bore water...

An Albany school, attended by students living across the Mahurangi region, is making solar power a priority in a new sports complex currently being built....

A dispute between Auckland Transport (AT) and the Ministry of Education that went all the way to the Environment Court has been resolved through mediation,...

Red Beach Four Square owners Jeff and Coral Fenton. The ram raid was a shock for the couple, but the community support that came afterwards...

Sodium fluoride is often added to water and toothpaste. A Government proposal to amend legislation related to drinking water will make fluoridation of water in...

  From left, Daniel Peak from Fulton Hogan, teacher Annette Bryant, AT’s Julie Crook and truck driver Ravinder Singh with Tauhoa students at the recent...

About 45 volunteers worked in about a dozen teams, including many young children doing hands-on science. A community shellfish monitoring day on the Sandspit estuary...

The Warkworth A&P Show made a stunning comeback this month, despite early fears that the event would suffer the same fate as last year, when...

Richard Browning would not recommend a Nissan Leaf. Beryl Good thinks her Tesla Model 3 is absolutely fabulous. Julian Ostling, left, believes a switch to...

Wellsford School students participate in a lesson on waste with actor Tineke Robson at an outdoor classroom at the Lawrie Road recycling centre. Between auditioning...