See this year's madcap entries in the Russell Birdman parade, and watch as the Duke Tavern team attempts something - we're not sure what - using a ladder on the end of Russell wharf

The fly tip site is the second one uncovered in Whangarei inside a month.

A crane was brought in to lift skip bins down a steep bank for rubbish to be removed.

Whangarei man Dan Alders was stabbed by a black stingray as he tried to save it's life by flicking it overboard.

Michael Cunningham captured this video from the Launch of True Tales of Maungatapere.

Victor Dunn-Schwenke has always wanted to help youth, now he is.

On the Friday before Russell's Birdman jump locals put on their best dresses and high-heels and run an obstacle race around town. We're talking about the men of course - the women compete in the Fred Dagg Dash (gumboots, singlet and hat compulsory).

Meet Cora and Caesar - two police pups being trained in Northland.

Brad Flower's dashcam captured the moment the vehicle he was following crashed into a guard rail while heading south on State Highway 1 on Sunday.

A large pile of household rubbish has been found next to a rural Whangarei road.

Police are investigating a collision between a car and logging truck on one of Northland's busiest trucking roads.

James Rolleston, known for his roles in Boy and The Dark Horse, spoke to Kamo High School students about a crash which changed his life in July last year.

The Mangakahia Gardening Club marked Lonely Bouquet Day by making flower arrangements and placing them around Whangarei. Punters who found them were more than pleased.

Kerikeri Cruising Club, where Team NZ sailors Blair Tuke and Andy Maloney first learnt to sail, celebrates this morning's win in the America's Cup

Northern Advocate reader Shane Wombwell sent in this video of two men rescuing a catamaran which had come of its moorings in a storm last week.

Pedal man is showing his support for Team NZ in Bermuda.

More than 100mm fell on parts on Northland in the 24 hours to noon on Thursday, closing schools and inundating farmland

Footage supplied by Hannah Tangny. A convoy of wheelchairs towed by a mobility scooter is turning heads on social media. The video, posted by Hannah Tangney, shows a mobility scooter towing two people seated in wheelchairs, hooked up behind the scooter.

British and Irish Lions tour started in Whangarei, Senior Photographer Michael Cunningham's slideshow of the visit.

British and Irish Lions photographic slideshow by Michael Cunningham, Senior Photographer, Northern Advocate

British and Irish Lions slideshow as by Chief Photographer John Stone, Northern Advocate

Otamatea High School welcomed students and guests attending the Te Tai Tokerau regional Nga Manu Korero competition.

Thousands of spectators filled the Treaty Grounds on June 4 to see up to 400 Ngapuhi warriors welcome the British and Irish Lions to Aotearoa with a series of challenges and spine-tingling haka. Video by Peter de Graaf.

Footage of Lions being welcomed to Waitangi

A small shaggy dog nicknamed 'Hairy McLary' has finally found a permanent home with Lisa Dyer in Whangarei

A slump upstream of the Hopua Te Nihotetea Dam face at Maunu could cost $80K to fix.

Excerpt from Merv Pinny's song 'O.B. Can You Hear the Children Cry?', his take on the conflicts and refugee crises currently sweeping the Middle East and Europe.

Floodwaters at Kaeo’s Omaunu Rd, which links SH10 and Whangaroa Hospital.

Kaitaia was cut off from the outside world on Thursday morning with a slip on SH1 at Mangamuka Gorge and flooding across SH10 just north of the Whangaroa Bridge. The floodwaters dropped quickly after high tide at 9am; here water is still flowing across the highway but traffic is able to get through.

When the roads are flooded and Kaeo folk need to go shopping — in this case to stock up on essentials ahead of Cyclone Cook — they don’t get upset. They just leave the car at home and get a lift on someone’s truck through the floodwaters, take a boat, ride a horse, or just walk. As Noble says, ‘‘you gotta go what you gotta do’’.