A ceremony to commemorate the centenary of Kaitaia's World War 1 memorial will be held at Remembrance Park next week.

Poor Maori people and their children enduring hard lives in Kaitaia will soon be offered help by a new ANT Trust programme called Open the Curtains.

Home advantage paid off for the two New Zealand teams as they enjoyed a clean sweep in taking out both men's and women's titles in the 2016 Inter-Pacific Spearfishing Competition which wound up in the Bay of Islands earlier this month.

I am writing to you because so often in the letters to the editor I read about what is wrong, what could be done better, how difficult young people are and about how much better life could be, if only we made an effort.

Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell will discuss the draft Maori land reform bill, Te Ture Whenua Maori, with Far North Maori land owners and trustees at Te Ahu in Kaitaia from 11am-1pm on Thursday.

Hokianga sharemilkers Glen and Trish Rankin were named 2016 Northland Share Farmers of the Year at the region's dairy industry awards dinner at Forum North in Whangarei on Saturday night.

Parties involved in seeking a united approach to Ngapuhi Treaty negotiations and settlement will hold five wananga in the North and a sixth in Auckland to tell whanau and hapu what is going on and seek their input.

Organisers turned a negative in to a positive when a smaller than usual field turned up to part in the annual Stonecraft Tournament at the Kaitaia Croquet Club on Matthews Avenue last Friday.

Serenity Taniwha had a simple answer for those who asked why she would want to leave her home and career in Hamilton to return to Kaitaia.

Beryl Andresen has absolutely no doubt that her son Phillip's year-old black Labrador Bella was stolen from Phillip's home in Kaitaia on January 12, but that's irrelevant now.

Everything was looking good for the 2016 Houhora One Base game fishing tournament that started yesterday - until yesterday morning.

Students from Taipa Area School and Oruaiti Primary School took full advantage of being given the opportunity to learn the game of golf croquet at Cable Bay recently.

Organisers of the annual Houhora One Base big game fishing tournament said the weather forecast was looking good for this year's event, which starts tomorrow and runs until Saturday.

The letter signed by someone calling themselves Harry Stottle (March 3) alleges that "a van-load of inebriated 'voters'" was brought to the WHST Kaeo election to swell the votes placed for Maggie Rudolph, standing against Brendan Tuohy last May.

IT'S NOT TRUE that only the good die young, but it is true that Martin Crowe had so much more to give his country when he lost his battle with cancer last week at the age of 53.

Colleen and Graeme Dunn were hardly alone in experiencing a deep sense of loss, even grief, when they thought they could no longer go on the campervan tours they loved so much.

Kaitaia GP Dr Lance O'Sullivan said before he left that he was going to the United States to see what he could learn that would benefit his own community (The doctor is out, February 23), and is doing just that.

Northland's sole surviving railway line is to be mothballed north of Kauri, because KiwiRail says it is no longer viable.

What started as a plan to make Kaikohe more self-reliant has morphed into a market providing townsfolk with fresh produce and a weekly evening out for local families.

In reference to the article 'New era for Ahipara Health' (February 18), there are several points that require clarification, and may be of interest to the wider community.

A report into a Maori trust that lost up to $3 million reveals how it expanded rapidly just as it was expected to be winding down, and that its trustees had no idea of its dire financial position until it was too late.

Maitai Bay was all but deserted on Monday evening, which perhaps was just what American earthscape artist Andres Amador and his collaborator, film-maker Jonathan Clark, were hoping for.

An Australian woman who hid fruit, vegetables and meat "all over" her yacht and did not declare them to a quarantine officer when she arrived at Opua in November 2014, was fined $3000.

Far North surfers were to the fore in various divisions as the 2016 Northland Scholastic Surfing Series kicked off in good conditions at Sandy Bay earlier this month.

A tiny South American bug that was released in Northland five years ago to control tobacco weed is spreading well, prompting a call from an insect expert who is tracking its movements for reports of new sightings.

As the chief executive of Northland DHB, I wish to respond to recent letters alleging board member conflicts of interest.

IT'S BEEN a while since we heard of the 'Look Up Te Hiku' movement. Flags were erected, briefly, on the tallest of poles, exhorting us to look up physically as well as metaphorically...

A long-time commercial fisherman lost half a large shed and much of his equipment to fire on Thursday, but the outcome could have been much worse.

One Kaitaia woman was so sickened by Fisheries officers' most recent seizure of illegally-harvested paua that she has voiced her outrage on Facebook.

Kaitaia Intermediate School joined the list of those around the country that have received hoax bomb threats last week, but if someone was hoping that the pupils would be released from their classes they would have been disappointed.