A Kaitaia teenager who was told by Judge Greg Davis in the Kaitaia District Court last month that if he breached his bail again he would go to jail was arrested on Sunday.

Northpower lines staff are working to restore power to homes and businesses around Whangarei after an explosion at its 33,000kV station at Maungatapere.

The Kawakawa Team Roping Club successfully staged its annual family day event at the Kawakawa Domain on Saturday.

"In remembering the suffering and losses of war, let us commit ourselves to working for a world where differences between nations can be resolved without resort to war.

A very impressive service commemorating the centenary of the Anzac force in World War I was held at Te Ahu.

The granddaughter of a Far North war hero says she is proud and humbled by her granddad's starring role in an Anzac exhibition honouring Kaeo's old soldiers.

Eighteen months ago Bruce Crowther saved the lives of two tiny, worm-ridden puppies that were dumped behind his home in Kaikohe.

The body of an 87-year-old farmer who went missing in rugged bush just south of Kaeo on Monday was found only when searchers spotted the dog that had stayed with him all night.

A group of young European women were shocked to return from a Mission Bay ice cream run to find their parked van had been broken into in broad daylight.

Sylvia Bryan admits to talking incessantly about everything - whether she knows anything about the subject or not.

IT WOULD be much easier to have the adult conversations of the kind we supposedly deprived ourselves of when we had the chance to change our flag if those with selfish political agendas didn't stick their oars in.

The Children's Autism Foundation is about to launch Guide to Autism workshops across Northland, offering a wealth of experience and guest speakers including paediatrician and author Dr Paul G Taylor.

Anzac Day had personal significance for many of the hundreds of people who attended the dawn service in Kaitaia and the civic commemoration later in the morning.

A 47-year-old man was remanded on bail when he appeared in court today charged with wounding and using a firearm, both with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

The annual Doubtless Bay Mixed Fours Tournament which ran at Cooper's Beach over three days earlier this month attracted 24 teams with players from as far away as Bulls.

The Doubtless Bay Croquet Club hosted 32 young students from Herekino in the west to Oruaiti in the east, in an intermediate aged tournament last Thursday, with local commentator Peter Hartnall describing the turnout as a joy to see.

I add my name to those who are astounded at the intent of the Far North District Council to put a fence along the Mangonui boardwalk.

Cassidy Foster has a soft spot for the SPCA, so when she set out to earn some points towards a 'duties and services' honour at Kaitaia Intermediate School the beneficiary of her efforts was never in question.

Northland Coroner Brandt Shortland has described the death, "probably" by drowning, of Roydon Rangituatea Tapu at Cable Bay on January 8, as a real tragedy for his partner, his son and whanau.

Bay of Islands College senior boys took out the North Island AFL Secondary Schools championship in Auckland earlier this month.

Margaret Ilton dismissed her class at Oturu School for the weekend, and two weeks' holiday, for the final time on Friday, after a career that began 48 years ago, just over the hill.

The Far North lost a remarkable man when Thomas Richard (Tom) Young passed away suddenly at his home at Cooper's Beach early on Easter Sunday.

ANYONE who ever heard or read the late lamented Celia Lashlie probably has a reasonable idea of what she would think about the new workplace safety rules, at least as they apply to children.

You're a prick. For six months you've owned us. You've smashed us as one bad piece of medical diagnosis was delivered after the other.

Dr Richard Sullivan didn't share Deanna Trevarthen's hope that Keytruda would help her win her battle against malignant pleural mesothelioma, one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Now they're not so sure.

An old soldier has joined the chorus of voices calling for tighter dog control laws after he and his best mate, eight-year-old terrier/chihuahua cross Sandy, were mauled by a dog in Kaikohe on Saturday.

The Doubtless Bay Croquet Club reported The Little Kitchen Tournament last Friday was well supported where, in ideal conditions, some of the most talented players in the province were in action showing off their skills with some long range croquet strokes

A 35-year-old man been charged with attempted murder in relation to an alleged shooting in Kaitaia in February.

Since the boardwalk was put in place there have been five Mangonui festivals, with thousands of people using the boardwalk, many of them partly inebriated, yet nobody has needed a fence to save them.