Local Matters

Crash figures for State Highway 1 from Puhoi Road to Brynderwyn are steadily creeping back up after a dip in 2012. The increase is being...

John ‘Big Bird’ Greig, of Warkworth, wanted a Harley but it couldn’t handle his size, so he had to import something a bit bigger from...

Auckland Transport (AT) and the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) last month announced a new transport network plan to support future urban growth in Warkworth. The...

Following the sell-out season of ’Allo ’Allo in May, the Warkworth Theatre Group is following up with another comedy for the second annual New Zealand...

Auditions are being held this Wednesday evening, August 7, for Otamatea Repertory Theatre’s next major production, This Is Your Captain Speaking. Director Peter Matheson describes...

The $16.5 million winning ticket that Wellsford’s Woodys Winners sold last month was the highest prize ever won by its customers. The store had put...

Sandspit playwright Joanna Pearce will have two of her one-act plays performed at Pitt Street Theatre in Auckland next month. The plays are Testostrogen and...

More than 200 people checked out the Warkworth Groups & Clubs Information Day at the Warkworth Town Hall on Friday, July 26. The event, organised...

The Mahurangi River’s coastal trading history, from Gordon Browne’s timber station in the 1830s until the connection of an all-weather road in the 1930s, is...

The “queen of boogie piano” performs on Thursday this week at the Leigh Sawmill Café.   Jan Preston, as part of The Jan Preston Trio,...