A Paparore School pupil prepares to shave for a special friend.

Fire chief Wayne Martin has been honoured for 25 years' service to Kawakawa.

Cyclone Debbie, downgraded to a category 3, has been classified as a "catastrophe".

Crucially for ratepayers, annual plans translate directly into rates demands.

Te Tai Tokerau has all the potential in the world, writes Kelvin Davis.

Alan and Helen Thompson have won the supreme Northland Ballance Farm Environment awards.

Kaitaia's Te Ahu Cinema will screen the 2016 film The Worm is Turning.

The Far North darts season offically opened last Wednesday.

Kaitaia's MOKO team is about to raise its profile even more.

Kaitaia police seek sightings of missing 62-year-old Ahipara man Leon Meyer.

A Far North conservation group has been named runner-up in national community awards.

All but one of the teens in a stolen car that crashed into cows was on bail at the time

Kaitaia almost came to a standstill for the funeral of teen Te Amo-haere Ella Rudolph.

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Two of New Zealand's biggest heavy metal bands to play in the Far North.

Fraser Smith hopes young people will develop a love for reading thanks to his debut novel.

Two more youths have been handed over by their mum after Friday night's rampage in Kaikohe

The Bay Marlins softball team will host end-of-season tournament.

Tributes flowed for inspirational teen Te Amo-haere Rudolph.

Learning support is a right, not an optional extra.

Brent Foster has rolled back the years to win the Bay of Islands Classic swim.

Chris Spurr took leave without pay for a week and hoped to win at least $1000 from a fishing competition to cover loss of wages.

A couple of league legends paid a visit to local schools.

Among the strong contingent of local swimmers expected by organisers of the Bay of Islands Classic this Saturday are a local couple

There's clean, pure fresh water, water everywhere, but somebody else is getting to drink it.

Corrections officers are being housed at a five-star waterfront hotel in the Far North while on secondment to cover the region's short staffed prison.

Wharf destroys habitat

Concert at the Station was a big success.

The Durapanel 90 Mile Beach Snapper Bonanza kicked off on Tuesday with the biggest turnout yet in the competition's seven-year history. This

A union is linking a linesman's injury to its call on Top Energy to halt its plan to lay off 17 workers.