Heyward Point News Today

The 454-acre Heyward Point planned community has sold $11 million at the end of April. The Drapac Capital Partners bought it in 2013 for less than $2 million.

More than 1000 "killing machines" have been removed from Dunedin’s West Harbour area since 2018. Halo Project Predator Free project manager Jonah...

Trees on Heyward Point Rd gather a few rays of sunshine as fog swirls around the hills lining Otago Harbour yesterday morning. Port Otago chief...

The best time to view the Matariki cluster is early in the morning

The partner and infant daughter of a man who died while surfing at Aramoana at the weekend were at the beach when the incident took place. James Civil's pa

A rāhui has been put in place until this afternoon at a beach near Dunedin where a man died after being pulled from the water yesterday.  Police and parame

Supplied Police were called to the Heyward Point area, about 25 kilometres out of Dunedin, on Wednesday afternoon after a persons body was found on the beach. (File photo) The death of a person whose body was found on a Dunedin beach is not being treated as suspicious. The area is named Whareakeake, formerly known as Murdering Beach. A police spokeswoman said after an autopsy on Friday morning, police were not treating the death as suspicious. The matter would be referred to the coroner. Stu...

Whareakeake is a small and secluded north-facing beach, separated from Long Beach by a high headland. A thriving Māori trading village was based there until a conflict with sailors from a European whaling ship in 1817 led to a massacre of the village’s inhabitants, according to the Dunedin website. Stuff

Police are investigating at Whareakeake, also known as Murdering Beach, after a body was found.

GO NZ: How to keep fit and work out on a NZ city break 27 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 8 minutes to read New Zealands urban centres are full of ways to work out and while out and about. Photo / Supplied, Rotorua NZ Herald By: Sarah Pollok Just because you are on holiday it doesnt mean you have to give up your daily workout, writes Sarah Pollok From urban bike trails to botanical walks, volcanic hikes and golden beaches, New Zealand cities arent short of places to take in a view and get on a sweat. So, w...