A 20-year-old student from Rotorua has come up with a novel way to get from Cape Reinga to Bluff.

Fire has raced through native scrubland in the bed of a dried-out lake in the Far North.

Children are the prime suspects for a fire that threatened homes in Rawene on Friday. A resident said some local children had built

The man accused of driving the car that smashed into a bench seat in Kaitaia's main street on January 12 - killing 54-year-old Edward

However vehemently rodeo organisers defend their sport, time is just about up...says Peter Jackson

Robin Billington couldn't believe his eyes when he drove along the Waipapakauri Straight on Friday afternoon and saw smoke. The Rangiputa

A new church has been opened in Moerewa, more than 60 years after the community began fundraising. The Catholic Church of St Therese

Kaitaia resident Des Mahoney has no doubt that the Far North District Council's elected members have seen photos of the town's oxidation

The signature twang of the Australian accent may soon be heard more around our northernmost region, if a new targeted tourism campaign proves a hit.

Tupu King again emerged as the most successful paddler from the Far North at the 28th annual National Waka Ama Sprint Championships

Everything's good to go for another blockbuster fundraising fishing competition at Doubtless Bay over Auckland Anniversary Weekend. Event

Oh for a racing column

Trevor Beatson was described by one of his former Rotorua colleagues as a good scrapper and a fine investigator. Others acknowledged

A Far North woman who spent three days undergoing the less than pleasant process of preparing for a colonoscopy was deeply unimpressed

Church Road Kaitaia residents were incensed to find a large quantity of household rubbish on the road on Monday, and want the people

The Houhora Bowling Club was again able to celebrate the memory of its beloved late member, Hoana Hockey, holding the annual memorial

The Muriwhenua under-13 girls have being doing the hard yards to ensure they're up to scratch before heading into the competitive

Archaeologists are hoping a dig in the Bay of Islands will confirm they have found one of New Zealand's earliest human settlements. The

Camper vans are a dime a dozen in the Far North at this time of year, but one stood out from the crowd last week. For one thing it

Russell residents are rallying to the defence of their volunteer firefighters after a critical Fire Service report was published in

It is far from unknown for various tropical species to come ashore on Far North beaches, but Kaitaia man Phil Cross cannot begin to

A century ago New Zealand was in the grip of World War I, in which 18,500 members of the country's 1.16 million population were killed

Three saved as boat hit rocks and starts taking on water in the Bay of Islands.

The Kaitaia Athletics Club was rapt with the performances of the threeyoung people who competed at the North Island Colgate Games

The New Zealand children who are least likely to be abused are those who live with their married biological parents. So says welfare

Evidence is scary stuff

Dave Collard eats, sleeps and breathes the 90 Mile Beach Snapper Bonanza at this time of year, but he hasn't gone quite as far as

Auckland and Northland are about to get much-needed rain with a line of thunderstorms off the coast of the North Island.

Kingi Ihaka, who died in Auckland on Tuesday morning, has returned to Te Kao, where he was born in 1942. He is remembered as a distinguished

This summer's big dry coupled with regionwide water restrictions could spell the end of some bowling clubs, Bowls Far North president