Kaipara District Council (KDC) may have a legal dispute on its hands as an increasing number of motorists continue to damage their cars on new traffic islands on the Kaiwaka-Mangawhai Road in Kaiwaka. Mangawhai’s Zoey Liebeck wants to hear...... Read More

Dome Valley landfill protesters have engaged a lawyer who has beaten Waste Management before to lead their fight in the Environment Court. Fight the Tip Tiaki Te Whenua incorporated has engaged Andrew Braggins, a legal expert who successfully opposed...... Read More

Auckland Council has released an interactive map showing which properties are most at risk from the forces of coastal erosion. At Scotts Landing, the map shows erosion lines severing the peninsula into an island and the Leigh Harbour walkway is depicted...... Read More

I have lived in Snells Beach for about 10 years, but apart from that I have no real connection to Warkworth, historical or otherwise. But I was disgusted at the response to people’s concerns regarding the removal of the name plaques from the...... Read More

A team from Haunted New Zealand – a paranormal investigation and research organisation – visited the Maungaturoto Hotel last month in an attempt to substantiate sightings of apparitions in the 120-year-old historic building. Investigator...... Read More

More than a decade of predator trapping efforts and years of negotiations with the Department of Conservation (DOC) will soon allow environmentalists to start translocating kiwi to Mt Tamahunga from next year. But Tamahunga Trappers stress they will...... Read More

Rodney Councillor Greg Sayers says the release of Auckland Council’s draft Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP) confirms his worst fears – proposing millions of dollars of additional funding for Auckland’s CBD, while simultaneously...... Read More

After spending 28 years housed in a Presbyterian pastor’s disused private bathroom, a Warkworth foodbank has finally relocated to a dedicated storage facility. Warkworth Christian Foodlink moved into its new 29 square metre building this month...... Read More

The French connection Most kiwis would be amazed to learn that New Zealand takes in waste from France (Dome likely dumping ground for New Caledonia waste, MM March 3). The point is that New Caledonia is not some poor Pacific island, it is a...... Read More

The checkpoints that locked down the Kaipara district towns of Kaiwaka and Mangawhai, along with the supercity last month, may have been illegal. Additionally, Police have also refused to confirm that the confusion over the checkpoint boundaries...... Read More