Local Matters

The egg and spoon race is a popular part of the annual Big Buddy Day Out, held in summer. Big Buddy mentoring works on the...

Anyone got any mail for Bluff? The first Posties Bike Challenge team will head out of Warkworth on November 8. A team of Mahurangi businessmen...

Two community groups have applied to use the Old Wellsford Library (OWL). The deadline was extended by three weeks after no applications were received by...

Over the past eight months, Aucklander Duncan Wilson has biked 9000kms around NZ’s coastline to fundraise for St John. Duncan Wilson biked the length of...

Rodney College student Nadine Tupp won the Lions Young Ambassador Contest last month, taking home $1000. There were 12 candidates from the six colleges in...

Hospice clinical nurse specialist Karen Williamson (left) and Advisory Board member Jacky Ruck. Local iwi and hospice supporters gathered in the dark on a cold,...

A group of Snells Beach women have combined forces to knit blankets and baby wear to support local groups.Group member Karen Lane says after two...

The Matakana playground, on the banks of the Matakana River, officially opened last month. The playspace features a 10m long slide, a mega-pendulum swing which...

Rodney College student Rosa Campbell (pictured front right) was welcomed as Rodney’s new Youth Advisory Panel representative at Rodney Local Board’s business meeting last month....

Warkworth Police are on track to start a community patrol in the Mahurangi area this summer.Senior Constable Garry Morning says the Friday and Saturday night...