Local Matters

RSA’s poppy pin ups – Anzac poppies bought on the Hibiscus Coast are likely to have passed through the hands of women from the Women’s...

Traumatised residents at Campbells and Baddeleys Beaches on the Tawharanui Peninsula will this week urge the Rodney Local Board to impose a liquor ban, in...

Changes are afoot at the Whangaparaoa Hospice Shop with the resignation of three long-serving staff. Cathi Cox, who has been the shop’s manager for eight...

Current residents of The Grove in Orewa got to meet perspective residents at the official launch of the retirement village’s redevelopment project. Around 40 people...

Free baby and children’s car seat safety checks are being held at Mahurangi Rugby Club in Warkworth on Friday, April 20 between 11am and 1pm....

A four-piece Auckland-based band, Martha & the Backseat Drivers, will be guest performers at the monthly Whangateau Folk Club night, in the Whangateau Hall, on...

Auckland Foundation is calling for funding applications from groups with projects that address social disadvantage, promote health and wellbeing, or strengthen community in the Hibiscus...

When Val and Bryce Nicolls became primary caregivers for two of their grandchildren, they were both in their 60s and still working. Having raised three...

If anyone personifies the phrase “you’re never too old to …”, it is Grace McFarlane of Little Manly. At the age of 92 she is...

Retirement brought Malcolm Macaskill back to a craft that he had abandoned 30 years before. He says he had always had a hankering to try...