'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.'

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...

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

Northland MP Winston Peters delivered a broadside against the government in a speech in Tauranga on Saturday, but saved some of his ire for Maoridom.

Police seized everything, down to his gumboots, when they arrested a 45-year-old man from Te Wahapu Peninsula, near Russell, for allegedly stealing from a Russell oyster farm late on Saturday afternoon.

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

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.

Just over 50 years ago I attended a 'Get the North Moving' hui in the Kaikohe Hall. There was a good mixture of people who were very concerned about unemployment, roading problems, lack of government ideas and action, crime figures and education etc.

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.