Christopher Findlay's letter (In good faith, July 2) talks up the Te Hiku claims settlements, but it leaves me wondering if he really knows what good faith is or what on Earth he has done.

REMEMBER the old days, when kids got opportunities based on talent? When those who were handy on the football field made the 1st XV, those who could sing or act starred in the annual school production, and those who could reason were chosen for the debati

Three careers received a helping hand in the form of the 2015 Te Hiku Hauora educational and sports scholarships, presented at Te Kao's Potahi Marae, last month.

Saturday will be the 30th anniversary of the day Greg Berghan, then a brand new 17-year-old, started work at the Kaitaia Dairy Company store in Kaitaia.

Close to 100 Ngapuhi kaumatua and kuia, who met in Kaikohe on Friday, did not accept Raniera (Sonny) Tau's offer to resign as chairman of Te Runanga-a-Iwi o Ngapuhi.

Former Far North Mayor Wayne Brown is calling on his successor, John Carter, to apologise over his calling of a Serious Fraud Office inquiry into Far North District Council activities over the four years to 2013.

Volunteer Awareness Week came to a fitting conclusion in Kaitaia on Saturday when one of the stalwarts of Riding for the Disabled, Gwenyth Cossey, received the Tom Atchison Memorial Trophy as the organisation's Volunteer of the Year.

The Te Oneroa-a-Tohe Beach Board, which is soon to be enacted in legislation, will be a first for New Zealand, and perhaps a model for the future both here and overseas, according to Te Runanga o Te Rarawa chairman Haami Piripi.

Large number of snapper that washed up on Tokerau Beach late last year died of natural causes according to the Ministry for Primary Industries.

Taipa Area School's head boy, Ezekiel Raui, is one of four young Maori leaders who will fly to Washington DC on Monday to take part in the first White House United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY) conference.

A number of Te Kura Kaupapa o Kaikohe students will proudly represent Northland teams competing for various titles at the national area schools tournament next month.

Ancient rivalries between Kaitaia and Eastern in both netball and rugby were rekindled during a day of Golden Oldies sporting action at Taipa earlier this month.

The continued hunting of wood pigeons makes me feel nothing but despair. All over Northland there are many people like myself giving up their days, weeks and years...

THE protection that was afforded the kukupa the best part of a century ago is unequivocal.

Four men, three of them local, lost their mate's four-wheel-drive vehicle and were fined a total of $8000 after they admitted possession of more paua than their customary permit allowed.

Brooke Ah Sam looks petite and unassuming, but those around her know she is a force to be reckoned with.

Among those celebrating the naming of Waipapakauri-born James Broadhurst in the new All Blacks line-up were grandparents Anne and Graham Broadhurst of Waiharara, affectionately known as "Gran and Grumps" to James and his brother Michael.

Cr Radich's impressive headline (Concern over the future of beach access for all, Northland Age Tuesday June 16) seems to me to replicate Helen Clark's famous whinge of 2004 regarding the foreshore and seabed (F&S).

Improving public safety is one of the goals of a new Far North District Council policy aimed at ensuring properties have a clear, unique address that emergency services can locate quickly.

Kerikeri High School band Back 2 Back was a convincing winner at Sunday night's Far North final of Smokefreerockquest 2015.

One of New Zealand's most significant carvings will return to Auckland tomorrow, more than three years after it arrived at Kaitaia's Far North Heritage Museum and Archives on loan from its permanent home at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Sometime late last Thursday night, or early Friday morning, some person illegally dumped two cartons of household trash alongside the receptacle provided for users of Ahipara's Korora Park.

SURELY the time has come for Customs and the Ministry for Primary Industries to put an end to the exporting of swamp kauri until allegations that the law is being circumvented, or simply ignored, have been investigated.

A 17-year-old Northland College student is one of just six from throughout New Zealand to win a place at an international business challenge in Singapore later this year.