Local Matters

For the second year in a row, a Stanmore Bay Leisure Centre gym instructor has taken out the People’s Choice award in the NZ Exercise...

Stanmore Bay Beach got a spring clean recently thanks to the efforts of Stanmore Bay Kindergarten’s eco-warriors. The kindy is a member of the Enviro-School...

Three Mahurangi College students picked up two awards for their electric vehicle ‘Passing Gas’ at the Evolocity Nationals last month. The ‘Passing Gas’ team comprised...

Cartoon character costumes and performers such as stilt walkers, pictured last year in the Orewa Santa Parade, are in high demand, which was one reason...

The public toilets at Scotts Landing are back up and running in time for  summer, following their closure for more than a year after their...

The biggest queue by far was at Santa’s Grotto. Many Red Beach students ran their own stalls at the Christmas Gala. Ashley Coultard, left, and...

9 September 1928 -23 November 2018 It was a fitting tribute that the funeral service of Warkworth Town Hall campaigner Beverley Simmons was held in...

After two months of negotiation across all political parties, Rodney-based Labour MP Marja Lubeck was proud to get a Members Bill dropped into an old...

NZ Fairy Tern Trust volunteer Reg Whale had a sad encounter when he did a trapping run on Te Arai beach on Monday morning, December...

Residents of the Oaks on Neville were treated to a rare display of guns from WWI on November 22, as part of the war’s centenary...