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SH1 speed limit consultation ignores safety issues

Cars already struggle to exit Goatley Road and Kaipara Flats Road onto SH1 at the existing speed limit, which will soon be raised to 100km/h....

Land zoned for light industry still sitting empty

Greener pastures: the development of a large tract of land between Goatley Road and Te Honohono Ki Tai Road north of Warkworth that is zoned...

More industrial land needed for jobs and growth, Mayor says

Warkworth needs new jobs as well as houses. Inset, Wayne Brown. You can’t have the massive growth planned for Warkworth without jobs, and communities and...

Ngāti Whātua rolls over on Dome dump

Mikaera Miru, left, with Ngāti Whātua chief executive Alan Riwaka at the Fight the Tip annual meeting last June. Riwaka said then that any offer...

City food scraps feed rural soils

A simple but effective scheme that uses commercial food scraps from urban areas to improve rural soils hopes to expand into the Mahurangi area. Called...

Cricketer hits it out of the park

Rodney Cricket Association (RCA) and Hibiscus Coast Under 15 cricketer Nikhil McClintock is used to smashing sixes – now he’s just hit it out of...

Sandspit wraps up season

Cadillac skipper Dean Grice was awarded Handicap Honours and the Graham Noakes Cup at the annual Sandspit Yacht Club prizegiving held recently. Grice picked up...

Shark chatter recorded

Researchers at the Leigh Marine Laboratory have upended the notion that sharks are silent.Marine biologist Carolin Nieder was studying shark hearing for her PhD when...

Prepare yourself for winter

Winter is often a magical time of year, but it can also pose many challenges. Colds and the flu are more common, existing conditions such...

Opening a window for women to succeed in trades

A chance decision to switch from elderly caregiving work to window construction has resulted in a string of successes for an Ahuroa tradie, and now...