Local Matters

Rising opera star Eliza Boom will feature in the final concert of the Sculptureum Winter Series this month. Eliza hails from Whangarei, but the soprano...

Rats, stoats, weasels and other pests are on notice that their days on the Tawharanui Peninsula are numbered. Ngaire Wallen has been appointed as the...

A new weekly bus service from Kaiwaka to Whangārei, via Mangawhai, was launched on Thursday, August 1 in a partnership between Northland Regional Council (NRC)...

An estimated 6000 people crowded into Warkworth’s Baxter Street on Saturday night, July 20, for the grand finale of the 2019 Mahurangi Winter Festival of...

Zac Franich receives Northern Region Pool Championships award on behalf of Orewa Surf Lifesaving. Michael Taylor with his Distinguished Service award. Red Beach’s Jasper Cornish...

“You’re never too pretty to play rugby,” and “forwards win games, and backs determine by how much,” were a couple of classic quotes gathered from...

Two scholarships were handed out to young sportspeople at the Kaipara Flats Sports Club awards on July 13. Ella Rogers received the Young Persons Sporting...

Photo, Peter Nicholson Tomarata RFC knocked out in semis The season ended for Tomarata in the semi-finals after a loss to Mid Western. Mid Western...

Coastguard’s Kawau unit is looking for 12 volunteers to join its frontline sea rescue service ahead of an induction session they will hold on September...

The first of Gulf Harbour Yacht Club’s youth sailing programmes provided students with an opportunity to help sail Lion NZ in unexpectedly extreme weather conditions....