Garden festival takes a year off
After celebrating its 20th anniversary last year, Waiheke’s popular garden festival is to take a year off in 2021 to give it time to...
Annual hospice fundraiser ‘back on track’ after $45k event
It was a wonderful sunny day with no wind when more than 130 of the community came together to raise $45,000 for the local...
Festival-goers enjoy a rocking good time
Thousands of revellers flocked to Waiheke last weekend for the seventh annual Flamingo Pier Festival.
For the first time, organisers pushed the event out to...
Flamingo Pier becomes three-day festival
Rangihoua Estate welcomes the seventh instalment of its Flamingo Pier festival across 6, 7 and 8 Febuary and this year’s lineup is packed with...
Time and tide wait for no paddleboarders
Mangrove mazes, eels and the chance to explore some of Waiheke’s lesser known backwaters were the highlights of the fourth annual stand-up paddleboard visit...
Can you help organisers finish the holidays with a free kids’ day out?
After a tough 2020, a free event for children has been designed to kick off 2021 in style – and organisers have put out...
Year in Review: The beginnings of a year like no other
The people’s choice word of the year for 2020 as voted by dictionary.com users was “unprecedented”. The use of the word skyrocketed in the...
Call me, royal
Princess Chelsea has brought her super-stylish show back home to Waiheke.
After an 18-month “pause” to her nationwide Loneliest Girl tour, during which she holed...