Aviation firefighting a job like no other
Kaitaia woman Jessica Neho has beaten considerable odds to qualify for a job with demands that few can meet.
Kaitaia woman Jessica Neho has beaten considerable odds to qualify for a job with demands that few can meet.
Northern Principal Rural Fire Officer Myles Taylor could just about recite his standard warning that extreme care must be taken when the Far North's fire risk begins to rise, but he might be giving that a rest this coming season.
After hearing eight weeks of evidence, a jury took just 4 hours to find a Northland man guilty of murdering his partner in Kaitaia more than two years ago by running her down in his car.
History was about to go by the board, spokesman Kevin Briscoe said last week after the Kaitaia Combined Bowling Club's property in Matthews' Avenue Kaitaia was advertised for sale by tender.
At just 30 years of age Boris Jurlina has achieved a rugby refereeing milestone few other Northland Rugby Referees' Association members have equalled - he's refereed his 100th premier game.
Sixty years of kindergarten in Kaitaia (and at Doubtless Bay) was celebrated last month, many teachers past and present, committee/association and kindy kids of years ago reacquainting themselves with their kindergartens...
A formidable team of conservation dogs, fondly known as the Rat Pack, has spent four days scouring the seven islands of Ipipiri for rodents.
Tony walked into the Switzer Home on his weekly visit to help in whatever way was needed. Meeting Sarah to discuss the welfare of the residents, he was told of a new resident, Jack, an 80-year-old from the Kaitaia district.
AUSTRALIA can hardly be criticised for deporting convicted criminals, New Zealanders included. For all that we claim to have a special relationship with Australia, we can hardly claim the right to go over there, beat people up and rob them and expect to b
The 2015 PIC Coastal Classic race from Devonport in Auckland to Russell in the Bay of Islands on October 23 will be streamed live online at www.coastalclassic.co.nz
The past summer of big gamefishing was celebrated at the Ahipara Gamefish Club's recent annual prizegiving at the Kaitaia Golf Club.
A Kaitaia woman's short story about the healing qualities of water and the power of karakia made its mark at the Pikihuia Awards for Maori writers last month.
We are writing to you regarding Sativex (cannabis oil, or medicinal marijuana) for the treatment of refractory epilepsy for our daughter, who used to have hundreds of prolonged, severe seizures every day.
Police say they will ask the courts to permanently confiscate two boats seized from alleged oyster thieves in the Bay of Islands last week.
Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox will accept support for her battle to eliminate smoking in New Zealand by 2025 from wherever it comes, and she was delighted to accept a petition in Kaitaia yesterday calling for a ban on smoking in cars with passengers un
It wasn't the biggest protest ever in the North, but those who converged on Kaitaia's market on Saturday morning to air their opposition to the process of potentially adopting a new national flag certainly made themselves heard.
Sidney George Farmer was an Englishman; how he came to be living in the Far North of New Zealand is not known, but he spent the final years of his long life happily ensconced at Kaitaia rest home Switzer Residential Care.
Police last week seized thousands of dollars worth of kauri gum from a massage parlour in Whangarei. Banana boxes, fish bins and sacks filled mainly with pieces of unpolished gum were found during a search of the Scarlet Lounge on Tuesday.
Kaitaia's He Korowai Trust is awaiting the outcome of an Internal Affairs process aimed at determining whether it can retain its charitable status, and continue the work it is doing to provide low-income Far North residents with homes of their own.
The sting was taken out of a public meeting called by the Waimate North Mission District management group at Okaihau on Friday when it was announced that a proposal to transfer ownership of St Catherine's Church at Okaihau was unlikely to proceed.
A group of Kaitaia ladies beat the odds to claim the women's title at the National C-Grade Superchamps in Taumarunui last weekend.
Over the past months the Labour caucus have been travelling the country and doing a series of regional visits.
Evan Nathan, a former regional manager for the Department of Labour, has been appointed as the interim manager for Te Aupouri Maori Trust Board, whose job will be to help to facilitate the transitioning of the board's activities to the Aupouri Runanga...
An unmarked police car had its driver's door all but torn off yesterday morning, when it was struck by another vehicle on the Awanui Straight.
Kaitaia woman Patsy Panther has considerable sympathy for the 72-year-old Palmerston North man who claimed last week that he had been told to make his way home from Wellington Hospital, in his pyjamas, by bus.
The Far North Zone Cross Country was held at Peria School on Friday, September 4, following a very wet and windy week which made the course suitably muddy much to the delight of the young participants as they slid and waded their way through the event. Re
Twenty-four hours into RWC 2015 (at the time of writing) and the signs aren't good.