The Winston Peters show arrived in Kaitaia yesterday, drawing a crowd of at least 80 supporters, hecklers and the plain curious who spilled on to the road outside the town's post office.

Having dominated the competition for the previous two years, the Te Rarawa Football Club is aiming to secure a three-peat by winning the under-8 division for the third year running when the Kaitaia junior football winter season kicks off later this year.

The Houhora One Base celebrates its 21st anniversary this year with the annual major big gamefishing tournament set to run from Wednesday to Saturday, March 18-21 (the week after the Snapper Bonanza wraps up).

IT WOULD be nice if politicians and took a leaf out of Hippocrates' book, and resolved to first do no harm. Too often policies, supposedly devised by politicians and enacted by bureaucrats, do very real harm, nine times out of 10 for no better reason than

An agreement that aims to protect the Taumarere River while allowing a controversial marina extension to go ahead at Opua is being hailed a "win win" by the hapu that initially opposed it.

National has pledged to spend up to $69 million replacing 10 one-lane bridges in Northland over the next six years, including notoriously narrow and flood-prone bridges at Taipa, Kaeo and Rangiahua.

Kaitaia Abundant Life School student Travis Burrows will put his fitness to the test tomorrow on behalf of an ailing schoolmate.

The clear winner of Saturday's pageant at Te Ahu was Danielle Collings, who happens to be a receptionist at this newspaper's Commerce Street headquarters. The 19-year-old from Doubtless Bay also took out the Miss Catwalk title.

Kasey and Karena Bird, the Bay of Plenty sisters who won last year's NZ Master Chef title, know about life in small towns...

Six months ago the ferocious bombardment on Gaza stopped. While the guns may have fallen silent the war continues for the children of Gaza.

Eight-year-old Te Paea Rameka has had more health issues over the last year than many people would face in a lifetime. But she's never lost the beaming smile...

Police seized what they believed to be a substantial haul of stolen property from a house at Ahipara yesterday, spreading it out on the lawn and painstakingly recording it in detail.

Police displayed exquisite timing when they raided a house on Mataraua Road, south of Kaikohe, on Sunday morning. A fresh batch of methamphetamine was reportedly cooking when they arrived...

The Houhora Fishing Club was in the thick of the action in the New Zealand Sports Fishing Council 2015 nationals competition, with 15 impressive specimens bought into the Far North weigh station....

The saying the devil finds work for idle hands can certainly be applied to Kaitaia.

I would like to take this opportunity of writing to your paper to express our thanks for the many acts of kindness and support we experienced when our campervan and a truck collided....

THERE'S nothing like a by-election to bring out the opportunist in some politicians...

The National Party chose former Te Ahu manager Mark Osborne as its candidate for the Northland by-election.

Police had no doubt that two small Kaitaia boys, aged around 5 or 6, were in imminent danger of drowning when a former soldier went to their rescue on 90 Mile Beach on Sunday afternoon.

A significant number of marlin and yellowfin tuna were either bought to the weigh station and or tagged and released during the 2015 Hihi Marlin Classic.

Drag race for revved-up 90 Milers

St John volunteers from Kohukohu have been a fixture at the North Hokianga A&P show at Broadwood for years, not to promote what they and their organisation do but in case they are needed.

Hells' bells and buggy wheels ...

Heather Ayrton JP, QSM, has brought an end to 40 years of service as a Justice of the Peace, a contribution to her community that was acknowledged at a luncheon last week.

At least some of the firefighters who were dispatched to a two-vehicle crash on the Awanui Straight, two kilometres north of Kaitaia, on Monday afternoon...

A 61-year-old sailor became the first person to be convicted of deliberately concealing biosecurity goods on a visiting yacht when she appeared before the District Court at Kaikohe last week.

Future Black Caps continue with junior programme...

Schoolboy cricket is alive and kicking in Kerikeri with the local high school able to field two sides in Whangarei-based competition this summer.

Kaitaia can thank Paul Reeves' father for the fact that it has benefited from his son's skill as a dentist for the last three decades.