Ethnic options are aplenty on the Kāpiti Coast. Rosalie Willis and David Haxton check out some options to tease your tastebuds this winter. Knysna / State Highway 1, Coastlands Shopping Centre, Paraparaumu Knysna might... Read...

The end of an Anzac Day service, on a rugby field beside a war memorial arch, in Paraparaumu, has been clouded in controversy.The shortened service, hosted by Paraparaumu RSA, which began at 7am, was going according to plan but... Read...

The Kāpiti SGCNZ University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival was held earlier this month at Te Raukura ki Kāpiti with Kāpiti College, Paraparaumu College and Mana College competing.With many festivals across... Read...

The hunt is on to identify a dab-hand artist responsible for a cartoon depicting a Hawke`s Bay Fallen Soldiers Memorial Hospital ward in Hastings 60 years ago.The framed but unsigned sketch is in the hands of Paraparaumu woman Lynn... Read...

Russia`s invasion of Ukraine has been heavily felt around the world including in Sweden where Paraparaumu Beach photographer Joanna Piatek is staying.Joanna has been in Stockholm, her city of birth, since November because of a family... Read...

`Smoke alarms save lives` is a reality, not just a Fire and Emergency promotional motto - as one teenage boy found out yesterday.Asleep at his home on Waterstone Ave in Paraparaumu yesterday morning, he was woken up by the sound... Read...

A hammer-wielding robber has taken the gloss off a Paraparaumu jewellery shop`s fifth birthday celebration.Kāpiti Jewellery Design and Manufacturers owner Rachelle Frazer was in the shop yesterday at 3.35pm discussing a ring... Read...

Fire crews attended two fires in the Wellington area overnight, one at a house and the other at a restaurant.Firefighters were called to Paraparaumu on the Kāpiti Coast at 1.10am, where they found a house on fire.The house... Read...

Apart from the Paraparaumu Maternity Unit (PMU), the nearest places for Kāpiti residents to give birth are the Wellington or Palmerston North hospitals or the Kenepuru Maternity Unit.Like all district health boards, Capital... Read...

Paraparaumu Beach restaurant 50-50 has been awarded a `hat` at the Cuisine Good Food Awards earlier this week.Sixteen eateries were awarded hats, with the top awards going to restaurants Hiakai and Floriditas alongside chefs Monique... Read...