Local Matters

Two Warkworth residents have been named in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.       Paul McGill was named an Officer of the NZ Order...

After decades of waiting for the notoriously clogged Hill Street intersection to be upgraded, Warkworth Rotarians decided to fix it themselves. And while Auckland Transport...

State-of-the-art lighting at Warkworth Showgrounds, which was installed less than three years ago, is to be replaced. While the lighting met resource consent conditions at...

A Sandspit playwright’s transgender play has won a major grant from Creative New Zealand to produce performances for school students starting in Warkworth. Testostrogen, by...

News that a new urgent health care clinic will open in Warkworth will be a relief to Mahurangi residents. But Jonathan Killick discovers the region’s...

There is hardly a house in Hoteo and Kaipara Flats that George Wech has not done some work on since he started as a builder...

A grieving wife and mother is feeling frustrated in her attempts to get horses removed from the Glorit Cemetery, on State Highway 16. Dianne Glavish,...

A Wellsford dairy farmer threatened with a $120,000 fine for selling raw milk has curtailed operations in the wake of a government crackdown. Last month,...

Harbour Hospice’s 14th annual art exhibition, mARTakana, opens with a flourish this Thursday, with a ticketed preview night including an auction of pieces donated by...

Author Zac Quinn, who spent six months working with asylum seekers at the Australian Government’s Manus Island detention centre will give a talk at Warkworth...