Professor Margaret Mutu was finally able to share a secret she had been keeping to herself for weeks when she received the Pou Aronui Award in Auckland on Tuesday night.

A Far North man who fought a high-profile battle to stay in New Zealand has died two years after being granted residency.

Mayor John Carter has called on Kaitaia's business community to get behind what he describes as a ground-breaking crime prevention initiative that could make their property safer (How safe does Kaitaia want to be? Northland Age November 10).

Awanui rugby's talented Fijian winger, Filipo Nakosi, has been picked up by French Top 14 franchise Agen.

It's hard to know where to start when covering an event of the nature of Warriors in Paradise 2, the one-day fight fest in Waitangi on Saturday which featured martial artists from all over the show.

International bird scientist Dr Luis Ortiz-Catedral, an expert in parakeets and island restoration, has blamed a lack of pest control across Northland as playing a key role in the disappearance of the kakariki, the native red-crowned parakeet, which is no

There we were. My daughter and I en route to Melbourne for the Derby and Melbourne Cup races. Ticking off our bucket list. Friday morning, Auckland airport, checking in at 4.45am.

Twelve months ago printing.com. Kaitaia was named Franchise of the Year. And on Saturday night they did it again, at the national conference in Wellington, against competition from more than 35 other contenders around the country.

Organisers of the Carter's Tournament were rewarded with a huge turnout and perfect conditions for the annual event at the Doubtless Bay Croquet Club on Saturday.

Are the fun police at DOC and our local council, not getting the message?

IF WE cast our minds back we will remember the National Party fighting, if that's the right word, a by-election in Northland.

A former Kaitaia College student who is now studying for a Bachelor of Commerce degree in international business and political science at Victoria University has been selected as Northland's representative in next year's Youth Parliament.

A 47-year-old man who ran over his partner in Kaitaia with what the Crown described as murderous intent and a high level of "brutality and callousness," will spend at least 17 years in prison.

Kaitaia has the opportunity to benefit from a ground-breaking new approach to crime prevention according to Mayor John Carter - if the business community is prepared to pay for it.

The Kerikeri High School girls' cricket team recorded a historic victory over their arch-rivals in Whangarei this week.

Like the men and women who crew Coastguard rescue vessels and aircraft elsewhere around New Zealand, the Kerikeri-based Northland Coastguard Air Patrol (NorthCAP) crew are volunteers, willing to drop everything to assist those in distress at sea...

Kaitaia and surrounding areas will be without electricity for most of the day once again on Sunday, November 29 while Top Energy undertakes major maintenance work, including replacing a cracked concrete power pole at Umawera.

Twenty Northlanders featured among a team of 50 Maori taking in the World Indigenous Games which wrapped up on Sunday in the Brazilian city of Palmas.

SUNDAY was a good day for a lot of New Zealanders, and not only those who were at Twickenham to see the All Blacks win their second Rugby World Cup on the trot in a match befitting a final.

A Far North man can expect to receive a $6000 bill in the mail after a rubbish fire got out of control and spread into about half a hectare of scrub at Motutangi, south of Houhora, last week.

If Kaitaia cafe owner Jenny Petera has a wish for the the people who burgled her business on Sunday night it is that the police find them before she does.

The Far North has once again made the SPCA's annual List of Shame.

Two of the most successful players the Kaitaia Squash Club has produced were on top of their game at the New Zealand Squash Masters Tournament in Hawke's Bay earlier this month.