In defence of dear old Daisy

Finally a sea change

Top Energy's chief executive Russell Shaw is aware of the irony that the winner of the lines company's inaugural engineering scholarship

Even in a small town businesses change hands on a regular basis, without great fanfare. But Anil and Sashi Khatri, who will hand

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

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.

A couple of boxer-cross puppies have been plucked from a certain death at Northland dump where they'd been abandoned in a black rubbish bag.

Police are appealing for a member of the public who came to the rescue of a motorist being choked by passenger as he drove through Whangarei last night.

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

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

Bob McCoskrie will be well used to it by now, but the response to a report declaring that children who are raised by their married

Shaw a very special CEO

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