Whananaki FM

12/12/2025

TODAY on Whananaki FM: at age 16 local artist and academic Richard Coldicutt lost both his parents and his little sister in an airliner crash. Since that pivotal moment Richard's lived his best life - and it's life full of stories! One of my fave Meet Your Neighbour's so far as Richard shares some of his extraordinary life from 9am today. This episode could've gone on for hours and can't be missed. Plus - the Mystery Sound is back and worth $250 at the shop! Play after 9am!

08/12/2025

A pitch report from Whananaki North Road this morning! People are still driving way too fast on this road, PLEASE slow down - chip is going everywhere and there are two primary school camps at the lodge this week. 30kph feels about right.

06/12/2025

2-Second Poll: Should they have sealed Whananaki North Road or are there other priorities? Click to vote!

Poll: Did we need Whananaki North Road sealed or are there other priorities?Dallas Gurney2 minutes ago0 min readDid we need Whananaki North Road sealed or are there other priorities?Yes No - other priorities

06/12/2025

It's Whananaki School final assembly, annual raft race and manu comp this Thursday! Plus, the school calendar is out... here are all the deets from Mr T. and the kids of Whananaki School!

When the time came to sit down with Shaun Tepania about the new Whananaki School calendar this week, we were pleasantly surprised he brought in some extra special guests! Our Whananaki FM studio was chocka with kids who had all the details about the new school calendar, plus shared the plans for the...

06/12/2025

TA Tales: This week we met Shawn Mahoney from New Hampshire who is walking the Te Araroa trail with his log "Larry"! Thanks for coming to Whananaki Shawn and what a great story!

We get some interesting walkers through Whananaki doing the Te Araroa trail, but we have never met someone intentionally trying to make it harder for themselves!Meet "The Logman" - AKA American thru-hiker Shawn Mahoney - who is walking the 3,000 km Te Araroa trail while carring a 10kg log over his s...

06/12/2025

This morning we caught up with our local cops Smiley and Rado on "Meet Your Neighbour". We learnt about their back stories, what drew them to policing and what we can do as a community to help them.

It was an extra special Meet Your Neighbour this week as our two local police officers "Rado" and "Smiley" - that is Greg and Leon - came into the studio to be put through their paces!These guys epitomise great rural policing and are regularly seen around the community on the beat and talking with l...

05/12/2025

Tomorrow Saturday on Whananaki FM! Meet Your Neighbour, Boys in Blue edition! Meet our local cops Rado and Smiley at 9am. Plus, Shaun Tepania and the Whananaki School kids on the new calendar and final assembly this week... we meet a TA walker carrying a bloody big LOG the length of the country for charity... and the Mystery Sound is worth $500 this weekend! Play from 9am... you've gotta call in to win! 4338466 @ 9am tomorrow. 88.2FM in paradise and iHeartRadio everywhere else!

04/12/2025

Why are they re-sealing Whananaki North Road when Rockell Road and Hailes Road are so bad? Any ideas? I think I'm going to have to see if Cr Scott McKenzie - Deputy Mayor of Whangārei can have a chat on this one.

03/12/2025

OK now you can’t say this isn’t a little OTT Fulton Hogan. Or am I being trolled?!

03/12/2025

Moureeses Bay-lovers (and who isn't)... there's a new t-shirt design in there for you this year!

29/11/2025

Noticed the terrible smell coming down the cutting? Our fire chief Barney Bennett went to investigate and thankfully it is only a very dead possum… good on you Barney for checking on it!

28/11/2025

Whananaki FM presents the Whananaki School kids hosting their own show! On now until probably around 8 tonight…