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.
The Far North Zone Cross Country was held at Peria School on Friday, September 4, following a very wet and windy week which made the course suitably muddy much to the delight of the young participants as they slid and waded their way through the event. Re
Twenty-four hours into RWC 2015 (at the time of writing) and the signs aren't good.
Five of those arrested at the occupation of Kaitaia Airport on September 9 were remanded at large without plea when they appeared before Judge Greg Davis in the Kaitaia District Court on Thursday.
A Kaikohe teenager who didn't know what opera was until he hired Les Miserables from a video shop, thinking it was a movie about a mutant superhero, has made it to the finals of New Zealand's top contest for young opera singers.
Three dogs have been destroyed and two owners fined after the worst spate of kiwi killings in the Bay of Islands in almost 30 years.
The days of picking up a couple of crays at the pub might be over, but that's not good news for vulnerable fish stocks, according to the Ministry for Primary Industries. The black market has just moved with the times...
High school students from as far north as Kaitaia College to Maungaturoto in the south of the province represented their schools as individuals and in five person teams at the fifth and final event of the 2015 Northland Fish & Game Secondary Schools Clay
It would be fair to say that until a few weeks ago Northland College Year 13 student William Hohepa didn't know a lot about Singapore.
A Kaikohe group campaigning against sexual violence will conduct a rally on Thursday next week (September 24) to highlight the long-term harm caused by child sex abuse.
A panel of three independent commissioners has granted permission for a staged, multi-million-dollar geothermal power station expansion at Ngawha.
Dudley Andrews became an instant local hero at Waipapakauri Ramp on Sunday March 1.
At the halfway point of the 2015 Tanoa Paihia Hotel Rally of the North on Saturday, the field of 43 had already been cut down to 32.
No fairytale ending for the Kerikeri Masters who fell at the final hurdle in their quest to achieve the double and add the Stafford Choat Bowl to the Northland Men's 2nd Division title.
The first priority for any protester is to find a means of inciting a public reaction, without which no one is going to pay them any attention.
A group of Kaitaia College students hope to give a terminally ill friend the trip of a lifetime - but they need help.
The Auditor-General has rejected demands by Northland conservation groups for an inquiry into the swamp kauri industry, but has backed their claims that systems designed to prevent illegal timber extraction have not worked.
A hawksbill turtle has been found on the east coast north of the Bay of Islands for the first time.
The Treaty settlement process was completed for four Te Hiku iwi with last week's third reading of the Te Hiku Claims Settlement Bill.