Pawarenga United Marae Sports Day 2017

Thousands flocked to the celebration of all things Scottish on New Year's Day

The Bay of Islands welcomed 2018 with a fireworks display and a mostly festive, well-behaved crowd

Whangarei firefighters deliver Christmas in a shoebox to Otangarei

Four players stopped by at a cricket skills day

Fluffy the baby morepork is being cared for by the Whangarei Bird Recovery Centre. Robert Webb, centre manager, brought the little fella into the Northern Advocate office.

The second site is a kilometre from the first site, which was cleaned up last month.

A Whangarei mum has been overwhelmed by the response to her project.

Artists/inventor/techno-upcycler Robert Carter has used exercycles to create pedal-powered dub music machine

A logging truck rolls on a rural Northland road which locals have been lobbying to have sealed.

A Whangarei Theatre company is making sure schools can come to it's popular show.

For the first time Whangarei Girls' High School's year 13 drama students are bringing back their graduation show, Waiora by Hone Kouka, for a second season.

A big turn-out of people lined the footpaths on Kamo Road to watch the 2017 Christmas parade

The ESOL students from Whangarei Primary School have worked with the Northland Astronomical Society to create a human sundial.

Bamboo bike riding conservationist Libby Bowles visits Ngunguru School

A rest home knitting group take their woolly garments and teddy bears to Whangarei hospital's maternity unit.

The head of Northland police Search and Rescue, Cliff Metcalfe, talks about a search in Mataraua Forest for a hunter and his three sons, aged 13, 11 and 10.

Huanui College's Good Sorts' Day saw students from the school help out around the community. Noah Reid helped out at Kingdom Kidz daycare.

Estimated to be about 12 cubic metres, the dump spills into native bush

NorthTec is proposing a major restructuring which could affect a number of courses. The Sport and Recreation programme is on the chopping block. Here's what the students had to say.

A new water based adventure park has been built by a family

Whangarei Quarry Gardens and Sculpture Northland exhibition

The Whangarei Primary Schools Busking Festival kicked off yesterday. Here is Maunu Primary School's performance.

Food Rescue Northland collect surplus food from Whangarei growers and retailers and distributes them to community groups who support people in need in Northland.

A large illegal rubbish dump has been found beside scenic Ruapekapeka Rd, which leads to one of Northland's most important historic sites, Ruapekapaka Pa

Earlier in the year, Otangarei youth added their voice to a petition to get a playground in their community.

Five Whangarei schools will be performing for money in town next week as part of the Whangarei Primary Schools Busking Festival. Here is Hora Hora Primary School's drumming act.

A leopard seal nicknamed Hatea has made himself at home at Whangarei's Town Basin. Here are some tips around what you should, or shouldn't do, around him.

Kerikeri, Okaihau and Paihia firefighters called to Waipapa Rd on October 24 after fire breaks out in a large storage shed used by a music and stage production company.