Far North District Council compliance manager Darren Edwards has admitted that it should have done better after it removed the body of a dog from a street in Kaitaia.

Kai and another one-time stray, Monty, have shown such talent that NZ Detector Dog Services managing director Janet Wilson reckons they should be the "poster boys" for all unwanted dogs.

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.

Top Energy is warning is customers that they could be in for an "extremely draw deal" as the Electricity Authority (EA) consults on changes to the way electricity transmission is charged by Transpower.

The Kaitaia Fire Brigade responded to a fire at the Kaitaia Union Church in record time yesterday morning, in time to prevent a potentially major blaze.

The Northland Environmental Protection Society and Far North branch of Forest and Bird have released a complaint they laid with the Auditor-General on May 28 over "the many discrepancies" in the exporting of swamp kauri from Northland wetlands.

Good waves at the local also means good waves at Fiji so plenty of stoke at the sight of Cloudbreak absolutely lighting up for the men's tour of the 2015 World Surf League.

Mayor John Carter has welcomed questions anyone might have regarding the soon to be established Te Oneroa-a-Th"/90 Mile Beach governance board, but the bottom line was that the parties involved had to make it work for the whole community."

Northland MP Winston Peters is supporting calls for a moratorium on the excavation and exporting of ancient swamp kauri.

Local knowledge appeared to pay off for the Doubtless Bay Line and Rod Club anglers as they prevailed over their counterparts from the North Shore Fishing Club to reclaim the Youvella Trophy over Queen's Birthday Weekend.

Around 200 descendants of Okaihau identity William Imms converged on Whangarei's Barge Park last month for the first family reunion in 35 years.

The students who contested last week's Te Tai Tokerau Nga Manu Korero regional finals at Forum North in Whangarei lifted the bar with their oratory skills, according to an organiser who has been part of the speech competition for 10 years.

Ministry for Primary Industries staff have found six incidents involving Northlanders offering crayfish for sale on various Facebook buy/sell/swap pages in the past two weeks, prompting a warning from acting district compliance manager Stephen Rudsdale.

The Far North District Council has voted to appoint Mayor John Carter and Cr David Collard as its representatives to Te Oneroa a Tohe (90 Mile Beach) Governance Board, which will be formed as part of the Treaty settlements for four Te Hiku iwi, against st

Northland shepherds and their dogs found themselves out of their comfort zone and struggling in the icy conditions which arrived at the start of the national sheep dog trial championships at Taihape during the last week of May.

Fifteen Mid North teenagers were put to the test on Saturday in a large-scale exercise involving a plane crash, people lost in the bush, badly injured patients trapped in a car and a massive fire.

There are so many excellent reasons for believing in euthanasia. Here are some from a country where euthanasia has been practised for 10 years now.