A Kaitaia woman and her family were delighted to receive a special memento of her grandfather last year, but now it's been stolen.

Doug Klever isn't popping the champagne cork just yet, but he is quietly jubilant after finding three brand new NZ dotterel (tuturiwhatu) chicks within the sanctuary at Ahipara.

Police are still hunting the person who stabbed a police officer in Kaitaia on Monday night.

A team of young swimmers represented the Bay of Islands Swimming Club at the Auckland Junior Championships in Henderson last month.

A selection of Northland's most promising secondary school athletes will meet with, hear and soak up some highly valuable advice from Emirates Team New Zealand crew members at the inaugural ASB Performance Pathway event in Whangarei today.

It was billed as A Kiwi Christmas, and Pompallier Catholic School in Kaitaia certainly delivered on that last week.

I have received a very nice letter from the Honourable Simon Ten Bridges, together with his photo to remind me what a dashing, fresh-faced young man he really is.

Life on the farm is rarely as idyllic as it is generally portrayed for our entertainment, but the images that have gained worldwide attention courtesy of covert filming in the Waikato by animal advocacy group Farmwatch are utterly abhorrent.

The one thing Rodger Beatson has not experienced a great deal of in his 70 years is down time.

The last Thursday in November was also the last night for the Doubtless Bay Croquet Club's annual business house competition.

A Kerikeri firefighter who has been honoured for a quarter-century of volunteering says he does it for the sheer satisfaction of helping his community.

Most would not have left the ground before, and none would ever have clambered aboard a 1940s DC3, but that all changed last month for more than 60 special pupils at Kaitaia Primary School, thanks to the Warbirds Association and Child Flight.

Paul Eardley wasn't pulling his punches when he explained how Christians Against Poverty's debt centre in Kaitaia would work.

Three men, two of whom had obtained a customary permit, have been convicted in the Kaitaia District Court on charges of possessing excess and under-sized paua, Judge John McDonald consenting to the Ministry for Primary Industries' call for two vehicles to

Dragged off course by tricky currents, she nearly put her hand up at one point and asked to be pulled from the water.

A successful year for the Northland College Military Academy officially ended last week with the 'walk out' at the college.

One of New Zealand's foremost exponents and teachers of weaving was recognised at Creative New Zealand's 2015 Te Waka Toi awards in Rotorua on Saturday night.

Help arrived too late for a juvenile kiwi, believed to be male, that was delivered to a Kaitaia veterinary clinic last week.

A young local angler who weighed in a record-breaking fish earlier this year was officially recognised at both domestic and national levels at the Doubtless Bay Line and Rod Fishing Club's end of year prizegiving recently.

A Kaitaia businessman estimates Sunday's day-long power outage will cost his store $10,000 in lost turnover.

It's that time of year again when Santa starts making his rounds of Far North towns to announce the imminent arrival of Christmas.

A crucial rural fire brigade which closed down at Matauri Bay two years ago helped save a house from a rogue grass fire just days after it was reinstated.

A clean-up on 90 Mile Beach on Sunday brought hundreds of people together and succeeded well beyond organisers' expectations.

The future of scheduled flights to and from Kaitaia is looking brighter thanks to a bigger aircraft and lower fares boosting the once beleaguered service.