The death of the highly regarded leader, academic and champion of the Maori language, Erima Henare, had left a "huge hole" among his people, a Ngati Hine spokesman said last week.

The party's submission to the select committee quoted a string of polls dating back more than a decade that revealed a lack of public demand for a new flag, and growing support for he existing one.

Ross Beddows was "coerced" into joining the Hikurangi Volunteer Fire Brigade on March 3, 1990. They were a bit short on numbers, he said. Twenty-five years later Mr Beddows was the guest of honour at a function at Te Ahu on Saturday night.

The Far North grassroots rugby community was shaken to hear that long standing Kaeo RFC stalwart Robbie Ball had passed away Thursday April 16, 2015.

The 2015 Northland Sheep Dog Circuit was wrapped up at the end of last month with the last two trials held on the same weekend at Hobson and Maungakaramea respectively.

It goes without saying that Terry Jones is a fan of the Far North's Twin Coast Cycle Trail, but he sees much greater potential than that, for Kaitaia at least, in the renaissance of the bicycle.

It was interesting to hear today on National Radio of the solution by the FNDC to the problem of collecting rates on land with multiple owners, such as Maori land.

Two Kaitaia detectives have been recognised for their part in major child abuse investigations, work described as maintaining the highest traditions of the New Zealand police

The overall winning pair for the Kaitaia ladies contesting the Nancy MacCormick 36-hole Foursomes championship emerged as Fay Patterson and Lynn McCarthny with a combined nett of 148.

Far North Holdings Ltd and Bay of Islands hapu Ngati Manu signed a memorandum of understanding at Karetu Marae on February 27, and last week the two parties met formally for the first time, at Opua, with the focus on improving the water quality of the Tau

Lake Tangonge, which once covered much of the flat land between Kaitaia's western edge (Pukepoto Road) and the dunes of 90 Mile Beach, is almost beyond living memory.

A Facebook page has been launched to shame able-bodied Northland drivers who use parking spaces reserved for the disabled.

Dudley Andrews knew that 17 years in the Army had given him the skills and discipline he needed to rescue two small boys from the Tasman Sea at Waipapakauri Ramp on March 1, but even before he entered the water he accepted that he might not survive.

An inmate at Ngawha Prison says seeing people cry over a carving he made for a school changed his life. Now the head designer on Ngawha's carving course, Dan says when he gets out of jail he wants to go back as a tutor so he can help other prisoners learn

After the success and enjoyment of their first time attending the annual Kaumatua Olympics in Hamilton last year, Te Hiku Hauora Korikori A Kaumatua Roopu decided it was time to bring a similar event closer to their neck of the woods.

The small ceremony staged at Kaitaia airport on Tuesday morning to mark the arrival and departure of Air New Zealand's final flight from and to Auckland was about more than the end of one service and the beginning of another.

Some very good fish numbers were produced at the 90 Mile Beach Surfcasting Club two-day fishing contest on April 11 and 12.