The high level of interest in the Rollover Prevention Safer Journeys Programme shows a tangible commitment from the trucking industry to address the issue of truck rollover, according to Road Transport Forum chief executive Ken Shirley.

Julia Clarke has been knitting since she was a pre-schooler - her father taught her using meat skewers for needles - but she no longer has children of her own needing protection from bitter Rotorua winters.

The large fire was contained to the site's boiler room after flames swept up an air duct.

Sentencing for an American tourist who admitted his careless driving caused the deaths of two women - one eight months pregnant - has been deferred for two weeks.

The fish were reportedly everywhere for the inaugural Ladies Fishing Competition hosted by the Doubtless Bay Sportfishing Club and Taipa Tavern earlier this month.

Kerikeri's Steve McNally could not resist donning a gown when his son Sam graduated from Waikato University last month as a Doctor of Philosophy.

So, no game bird hunters allowed on Rangiputa Block this season. We are told that the reason is the new Health and Safety Act.

A case of measles has been confirmed in the Kaeo area.

Tributes pour in for a pregnant mother who was one of two people killed in a two-car crash over the weekend.

As the only Far North rider in the Northland team which made the long trek to Taupo to contest the 2016 NZ Pony and Young Rider Dressage Championship earlier this month.

Game bird hunter access to traditional hunting spots on farm dams, rivers and creeks will not be affected by the new workplace safety legislation, according to Fish & Game.

News that thousands of children start secondary school every year without the reading , writing or maths skills they need is not mind-boggling to me.

A Far North dog ranger's lot is not a happy one these days.

Generations of Far North farmers have seen manuka as little more than a weed, albeit one that has some uses, not least as firewood.

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.

"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.

The Halberg Junior Disability Games, a national sports competition for physically disabled and visually impaired young people, officially opened with a ceremony at the Avantidrome in Cambridge on Friday night.

In the past 50 years the Kaeo Fire Brigade has been called out 2757 times - and Lindsay Murray has been there for 97 per cent of those fires, crashes and medical emergencies.

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.