Paihia's win in the New Zealander of the Year awards will give the town national exposure and pave the way for even bigger projects in future according to community leaders.

Ahipara firefighter Joan Natanahira has a mountain to climb on May 23. Or rather 1103 steps to the top of Auckland's Sky Tower.

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.

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.

The teenage brain is a strange and fascinating place...

HERE'S a prediction. One day the Queensland fruit fly will arrive in New Zealand, establish itself to the point where it breeds, and our commercial fruit industry will be dog tucker...

A juvenile great white shark, described by one expert as tiny but warranting respect all the same, was lurking around Ahipara last week...

Kaitaia has heard a lot of its fire siren this year, but on Saturday afternoon it sounded as a farewell rather than a call to the volunteers.

The Kaikohe Business Association has cried foul over the Ministry of Social Development's preferred supplier regime for whiteware, which it says has severely impacted on local retailers...

No cause has been officially declared for the fire that destroyed a house on the Karikari Peninsula in the early hours of Tuesday morning...

In reply to the article re Pawarenga Broncos applying for entry to the RLN league. I take this time to explain our thoughts and why we are taking this step.

Lovers of crab meat would agree that it takes some time and effort to collect enough for a decent feed...

Norwegian oil company Statoil, which has begun the process of exploring for oil and gas in Te Reinga Basin, was back in the Far North this week...

Anne Te Wake finds it easier now to talk about her son's death in Melbourne on May 28, 2011, but she's still haunted by her visualisation of the fall that killed him.

A group of Kaitaia College athletes cemented a number of top spots in the national rankings at the second leg of the Road to USA CrossFit challenge series in Hawke's Bay earlier this month.

SO THERE he was, The Offsider, wandering through what he had come to regard as the Summer of SAM.

The Far North has two finalists in the field of five for this year's Ballance farm environment award.

On January 25 (yesterday, as I write this) one of my children suffered an injury involving three or possibly four broken bones...

THE POINT, let alone the creative merit, of a good deal of art these days probably eludes most of us...

Kaitaia teenager Te Amo-haere Rudolph needs her friends at the moment as she battles a cancer.

Top Energy is planning another nine-hour power outage north of the Hokianga Harbour and Mangamuka Gorge on Sunday March 15, the second in six weeks, this time to repair a damaged pylon...