DIFFICULT problems would be easier to solve without the chorus of 'You can't do that!' breaking out every time someone has an idea.

Police are keen to hear from anyone who recognises the shirt left behind by a burglar as he fled from an address in Kaitaia in the early hours of Saturday morning.

A retired American tourist who admitted causing the deaths of two Northland women in a crash on SH10 at Puketona on April 30 was guilty of driving offences at the lower end of the scale, despite the "huge tragedy" it caused.

Paihia's Bay Bush Action Trust won the supreme 2016 Trustpower Far North District Community Award in Kerikeri on Thursday night.

Some great catches were weighed in by local anglers enjoying perfect late autumn conditions in the Doubtless Bay Rod and Line Club fishing contest earlier this month.

The word that was used by many who visited the GNS Science earth camp expo at Te Ahu on Saturday was 'enthusiasm'.

The term 'main drag' takes on a meaning of its own in Kawakawa once a year, as teams of adults, youths and children attempt to pull a 28-tonne steam engine through the town's main street in record time.

Kaitaia's Children's Complex shook to its foundations last week as members of Kaitaia's No 64 Squadron and Kaikohe's 25 Squadron of the Air Training Corps (ATC) honoured Kaitaia's unit commander with a spirited haka.

A formal agreement between the Far North District Council and Te Runanga o Ngati Hine has been described by both organisations as marking a new era of co-operation and understanding between them.

Passengers on a domestic flight were given a mid-air shock when a door opened while they were flying through rough weather.

As a newbie on the Mid North bowls scene, Sarah Pattison teamed up with the veteran local pairing of Karen and Jerry Morunga to win the Le Roy Triples in Kaikohe over the weekend of May 14 and 15.

For a journalist you seem to have blinkers on when it comes to simply reciting the Kaitaia Business Association's spin regarding TSM.

SOMEONE smiled on Kaitaia the day Peter and Dinny Dryburgh decided to make it their home.

"I didn't expect this," Peter Dryburgh said when he finally had the chance to speak at his farewell from practice in Kaitaia on Saturday night.

Peter Dryburgh, who succeeded Dr Denis Tree as Kaitaia Hospital's surgeon superintendent in 1980, was reportedly a little non-plussed by his invitation to a farewell in Kaitaia on Saturday night.

A 47-year-old Pukenui man denied charges of wounding and committing a dangerous act, both with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, when he appeared before Judge Greg Davis in the Kaitaia District Court last week (Thursday).

The storm that was predicted to strike Northland over the weekend caused plenty of minor problems for police and emergency services, but little serious damage.

Sentencing of an American tourist who admitted causing the deaths of two Northland women in a car crash has been put off until next Saturday.

Far North paddlers headed the New Zealand vanguard at the 2016 IVF Va'a World Elite and Club Sprints Champs in Australia last week.

He was described on Saturday as a stately kauri of Te Hiku o Te Ika-a-Maui, a fine example of Kaitaia's founding European family, a man who had helped build what so many people now take for granted.

The Far North District Council and Te Tai Tokerau Primary Health Organisation (PHO) have once again joined forces to boost food security and economic development in the Far North.

Recent media releases are indicating that electricity supply charges are to change to effect a price drop so that South Island consumers will pay less as sources of generation are nearby...

Kaitaia's Open the Curtains initiative has completed its first community working bee.

Ritchies has suspended its Pawarenga school bus service to Broadwood Area School while an assault on a driver on May 6 is investigated.

The vast majority of Kiwis support creating a marine sanctuary in the Kermadec Islands northeast of New Zealand, a new poll indicates.

It had been a "day of terror" in the Kaitaia District Court cells, counsel Tracey Spencer told Judge Greg Davis more than five hours after her client was stood down in custody on Thursday.

There are a number of points to make with regard to Bishop Jim White and your recent article on the Waimate North parish.( Six do not a congregation make, May 3).

THREE years ago Kaitaia's senior police officer and his boss were invited to a meeting at the local fire station, where they were roasted by a gathering of grumpy business people.