It's been a busy fortnight for Senior Constable Rowena Jones - not busting crime but collecting accolades.

Peat will be mined from iwi wetlands north of Kaitaia under a proposal before the Northland Regional Council for consideration.

Mangonui's Clayton Jones earned his first gold star after helping his team to a centre title at the Kaitaia Primary School on Sunday.

I feel reassured by the Hon Tim Groser's short epistle on TPP (The best deal, August 25) despite its weight of rhetoric and lightness on detail.

Northland has produced five finalists in 10 categories in the 2015 Tourism Industry Awards (TIA) and this spoke volumes for the quality and growing success of the industry in the region, according to Northland Inc general manager regional promotions Paul

Electricity suppliers, Top Energy were pleased with performance of the network this week despite wild weather and a car crash on Okaihau Hill, which cut power to more than 400 homes.

After-hours visits to the doctors are in for a change as major provider Te Tai Tokerau Primary Health Organisation introduces a telephone helpline to support rostered on-call general practitioners.

Having the average weight set at 7.44kg was evidence of the good fishing enjoyed in the latest Doubtless Bay Line and Rod Fishing Club contest.

Mike Burgoyne is held in very high regard by his colleagues at Archibald's Mitsubishi dealership in Kaitaia, and by Mitsubishi New Zealand.

Statoil has rejected claims that it has "broken the rules" by wooing individual iwi leaders rather than engaging collectively, in line with its own protocols.

A project examining how farmers can combat one of New Zealand's most pressing environmental problems has earned two Northland College students the title of the Far North's top young scientists.

The chairman of Te Runanga Nui o Te Aupouri, the entity set up to receive the Aupouri Treaty settlement, has welcomed the Minister of Maori Affairs' appointment of a statutory manager and investigation into the financial activities of the Aupouri Maori...

Objects salvaged from a century-old Northland shipwreck and handed over to police for safekeeping are now being offered to anyone who can prove ownership.

A quartet of Kaitaia's elite gymnasts bought back a gold, a silver and three bronze medals respectively after competing at the annual Northland Championships in Whangarei earlier this month.

To admit to leaving New Zealand with preconceived ideas and changing his mind when faced with some facts shows real maturity, and no small amount of courage.

Brian Bellingham wasn't surprised when long-serving Bellingham Quarries employee Keith Tahu received the Institute of Quarrying's inaugural Good Bugger Award at the Northland awards night.

Whangaroa Harbour users are calling on authorities to act urgently to halt the spread of an invasive marine pest they say will wipe out jobs and native species.

The Far North Darts Association began its annual post season sixes tournament last Wednesday evening and the first round saw about 11 new players taking to the boards along with the return of past players such as John Hunter.

It ended as a fairly hapless Saturday afternoon for all five Far North men's sides in action in domestic provincial football competition.

It's taken Ray Woolley 76 years to win anything of any great value, but last week he broke his duck in style.

Mike Britton and Angela Bruce didn't miss too many chances to indulge their passion for two wheels when they were living in the Far North, but now...

I really felt sorry for the French girl backpacker that Anne and I helped the other day in Kerikeri.

YOU KNOW your taxes are being spent wisely when the police in Timaru prohibit an apparently community spirited man from getting mates home from the pub in one piece...

Mystery surrounds a collection of more than 360 postcards that have been in Kaimaumau farmer Claude Ilton's family for some years.

Fishing while banned earned a 32-year-old Kaikohe man six months' home detention when he appeared before Judge DA Ongley in the District Court at Kaikohe last week.

It's often referred to in New Zealand as the Forgotten War, but the Korean conflict (1950-53) has never been forgotten by the people of what is now South Korea.