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World Masters Games athlete profile: Multi-sport athlete competes in dual events

Ti Point resident Antoinette Spain will compete in both touch rugby and basketball at the 2017 World Masters Games. At 52, she will be in...

Local Folk – James Udy – endurance athlete

Warkworth endurance athlete James Udy, 37, takes us on his journey from a goal driven young man desperate to push every boundary of endurance to...

Local Folk – Vincent Maire

A background helping large companies with marketing and PR proved to be good preparation for the work Vincent Maire of Manly eventually moved into, in...

Introducing: KINZ Orewa

With a recently completed, purpose-built childcare centre, filled with colourful new, upcycled and natural educational toys and two outdoor playgrounds to look after, it’s no...

Introducing: MeNoPa Bistro

Although he had a career as an engineer all mapped out, Lou Zhe (known as Lun) has a passion for food that would not be...

Land sale slow process

It could be as long as a year before a piece of land on Whangaparaoa Road that was part of Whangaparaoa College goes on the...

Apartment plans gain consent

Plans are moving forward to turn the top floor of this building into 13 apartments. Auckland Council has granted resource consent that allows the upper...

Auckland Council promotes dangerous dog de-sexing by text

Owners of pitbulls and other menacing dogs are being targeted in a new de-sexing drive that Auckland Council hopes will reduce dog attacks on Aucklanders,...

Dog event has tails wagging

 Anaya and Philip Buys brought their great danes Skhy and Houston from Long Bay for the Hot Diggity Dog Show. They won Cutest Pair. The...

Hen jumpers save the day

Angela McClame has given four ex-battery hens a happy, free-range life at her Stanmore Bay property and says they are settling in nicely a year...