I see in Tuesday's Age, July 19, that your cartoonist, Malcolm Evans, is once again on his anti-semitic bike.

The Home Interaction Programme for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY) has been a big part of early childhood education in the Far North

The early birds caught plenty of worms when Healthy Families Far North and Mayor John Carter delivered the healthy workplace message to more than 50 Far North businesses representatives at a business breakfast at the Ramada Reia Taipa Resort last week.

The investigation into a stabbing incident in Kaitaia on Tuesday has continued, with police now identifying a person of interest.

Players abusing referees has brought the cancellation of four rugby league games in the Far North this weekend.

Defying the weather, 16 teams, including some representing the Cooper's Beach, Kaitaia Combined, and Church Road clubs turned out to contest the annual Patron's Bowls tournament alongside the members of the host club at the Far North RSA Bowling Club gree

Re Waimatenui-Mataraua Road Bridge N15 - response to letter from Des Mahoney in The Northland Age, July 14.

THE FAR NORTH seems to have reached the stage where discussing the drug problem is pointless.

Lois Wagener has lived on the Aupouri Peninsula long enough to have noticed how Houhora Harbour is changing - and she is deeply concerned that it is in the process of becoming the marine equivalent of a wasteland.

The countdown has well and truly begun for the three Far North athletes who form part of what will be the largest contingent ever to represent Northland at the Olympics/ Paralympics events.

A community initiative that has been quietly bubbling away in Kaitaia since the beginning of the year will come to fruition at 11am tomorrow, with the opening of Tuia Whare Taapapa and Maara Whenua.

Conform or else Ahakoa ko tenei Te Wiki Reo Maori, ka wepu tonu te Tahuhu Matauranga i nga kura kaupapa o Tai Tokerau e pa ana ki

Two Whangarei women who advertised seafood for sale on closed Facebook pages have each been fined $1000.

The driver of a Liteace van and his five passengers preferred to take to the water at Taipa estuary on Monday night than give themselves up to the police who had pursued them, via a circuitous route, from Kaitaia.

Rose Matthews knows it's a long shot, but she is clinging to "one last pinhead of hope" that someone knows what became of two books that were stolen from her and husband Rex's car outside the Waipapakauri Hotel 46 years ago - and that they will be returne

Mussel Rocks' defeat by Waipap in Far North darts last Wednesday means they will need to dig deep in the remaining three games of the round if they wish to make the top four for the championship knockout.

If they had been hoping for a pleasant week in the great outdoors, the 12 Te Puna Mana Toa (Kaitaia College Services Academy) students who took part in the latest NZ Defence Force course were disabused even before they left the comforts of home.

Hokianga carver and painter Liz McAuliffe is attracting a whole new audience for her work in Denmark.

Internationally renowned skateboarder Dave Crabb was the first person Far North District councillor Sally Macauley turned to when she set about launching a $120,000 revamp of Kaikohe's skate bowl.

Behaviour that a member of the public regarded as suspicious led to the seizure of tens of thousands of dollars worth of cannabis in Kaitaia last week, exposing an attempt to 'export' the drug from the Far North to the Deep South.

Having led a nationwide revival of traditional Maori games, particularly ki-o-rahi, over the past decade, the Kerikeri sporting facilitator described Nga Taonga Takaro II: The Matrix as a 200-page opus of "ancestral awesomeness".

Ivan Batistich, the son of a one-time gum digger, will take his place on the world medical stage in Hong Kong next month.

I read your editorial of July 5 with awe. I'm new to this region. My God, I exclaimed to myself, this is not the ravings of the mainstream left-wing liberal media. Is there political incorrectness here in the Far North ?

Year 13 Kaitaia College student Nina Griffiths has no doubt about how she will spend her working life, plans that have taken further shape following her success at the Young Enterprise Trust's annual Enterprise in Action event at Massey University in Auck

Property is stolen from Kaitaia Hospital on a regular basis.

A fire-fighting colleague of two men who died when their helicopter crashed into the sea off the Karikari Peninsula in 2011 hopes new standards will make battling scrub fires safer.

Three of seven men charged over a record breaking haul of 494kg of methamphetamine have entered not guilty pleas in the Kaitaia District Court today.

Over 20 Northland schools are converging on Taipa Area School today to take part in the Matariki Ki-o-Rahi Games 2016, which forms part of the local Maori new year celebrations.

Campaigner, marine biologist and photographer Dr Roger Grace has been awarded one of Forest & Bird's highest honours, the Old Blue, in recognition of his immense contribution to marine conservation over several decades.

Frank Leadley's memoirs, Frank Speaking, should come with a warning that the reader may succumb to thoughts that large chunks of their life have been wasted.