Sentence a win for animal welfare says SPCA.

Tony Urlich (pictured) won the gold medal in his age/ weight division at the 2016 Oceania Asia Powerlifting Competition in Christchurch

The finals of the Kaitaia Top Field Touch Module last Friday evening provided a fitting finale to another successful season, with

The Houhora Big Game and Sports Fishing Club is between a rock and a hard place. It knows it was bound by its original resource

Not enough taxpayers for super

The Houhora Big Game and Sports Fishing Club explained the rationale behind its proposal to restrict vehicular access to its boat

It's been a very long time since Gena Shepherd had to trust a 12-foot dinghy and a Seagull outboard to get to work, in preference

Kaitaia-based Highway Patrol constable Darren Critchley thought his working day was over at four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon but it was only just beginning...

Rikki Nathan died peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by family and friends, on Thursday. He was 24. He was farewelled at Ahipara's

Kaitaia teenager Will Davidson made every post a winning post at a week-long residential Blue Light life skills camp in Kaipara last

I am a New Zealander. I am so proud of our nation, our place in the world and our melting pot culture. We are not without history

Thanks go to Hone

A battery-powered hoverboard has been blamed for a fire that damaged a child's bedroom at a house in Kaitaia on Sunday night. A Kaitaia

Police are investigating a fire that razed a two-storey building in Kaikohe and threatened to spread to nearby flats. When the Kaikohe

A woman in her early 20s drowned and two other young women were hauled from the surf in a dramatic beach rescue at remote Hukatere

Local bowling clubs came out in force to support the Hickey Triples at Cooper's Beach last month with organisers reporting the annual

Worksafe NZ clearly believes that many of us are suffering a degree of paranoia over the new Health and Safety at Work Act. It insists

Missionaries planted the gospel

Power has been restored to the Far North after a major outage earlier today.

For the 65 competitors representing Te Taitokerau at the seventh Iron Maori half marathon in the Hawke's Bay last weekend, the months

A nationwide search has begun for the endangered native Forest Ringlet butterfly, so named for the distinctive target-like rings

There will always be food on the stove, things to do, help to be given, but most of all Kaitaia's new youth space is a place where

Two-year-old Zariah Windleborn was in the spotlight this time last year with her American bulldog Thor, winner of the 2015 Northland

Bon appetit

An Australian redback spider has been found in Northland - the first confirmed finding in the area in more than 25 years.

One of New Zealand's youngest asbestos cancer sufferers, Deanna Trevarthen, died in Auckland on Monday, surrounded by family and in

A major power cut that has closed schools and business across the Far North may be sabotage.

Plans to build a $300 million pulp mill near Kaikohe - bringing hundreds of millions of dollars and an estimated 200 jobs - have been

A kitten stuck down a drain sparked a major rescue operation in Kerikeri yesterday involving the SPCA, a plumber, council contractors

Fewer than half of councils have enough staff trained to respond to marine oil spills.