Local Matters

Lifeguards, from left, Ashley Maher, Katy North and Xavier Garneau-Roughan, were on the last patrol for summer at Omaha. Omaha and Mangawhai lifeguards brought down...

As we commemorate Anzac Day this month, 100 years on from the Gallipoli landing, we remember the local men identified on the three war memorials...

Warkworth raised brothers, Willie and Sam Ryburn, have set off on their epic trip retracing the route of the infamous movie Goodbye Pork Pie to...

Roy and Vivian Andrews say sealing Omaha Valley Road should have been a condition of the resource consent for the Omaha Valley quarry. A local...

Mahurangi Action secretary Cimino Cole hopes to have sections of a bridge. A proposed trail linking three regional parks in Mahurangi is being supported by...

Noey Houghton When Noey Houghton took over the Pioneer Bar, under the Nautilus, last month, he discovered that he is the fifth generation of his...

Nikki McLean and Craig Bowater After building a solid foundation on Whangaparaoa Peninsula for more than 40 years, Peninsula Engineering is on the move. However,...

Nik Sams Nik Sams’ SUP Shed began life almost literally in a shed when it started back in February 2012, operating out of tiny premises...

For three years, Taabeta Tebau and her husband Amuera worked two jobs, seven days a week so their children could leave Kiribati and join them...

The tuneful chattering calls of the Whitehead could soon be heard in Shakespear Regional Park, following the announcement last month that this species is likely...