The Bay of Islands Sheepdog Trial Club hosted the second leg of the Northland Sheepdog Trials circuit for 2015 on Friday and Saturday.

It's been a busy summer for the Northland Emergency Services Trust (NEST), with more people needing assistance in the last two months than ever before.

A very successful year was capped off nicely when St John Youth Doubtless Bay staged its awards night.

A 32-year-old Kaitaia woman who tied up a dog with wire, causing a 24cm gash in its neck, and tied another dog to a clothesline without shelter, was sentenced to four month's community detention when she appeared before the Kaitaia District Court.

Offers to replace Air New Zealand were made within hours of Air New Zealand declaring last year that it would abandon its Kaitaia-Auckland service in April. Far North Holdings announced it had picked a winner.

The Far North community has been given an opportunity to help a talented young Kerikeri footballer travel to train at the world famous Valencia football academy next month.

The Houhora Fishin' Chicks contest wiggled its way to another end with the organisers noting the weather was a bit unkind to the 40 ladies and their skippers over the two-day event held last Friday.

The board of trustees at Kaitaia College adopted a very thorough process to select a successor to principal William Tailby, who will retire at the end of this term...

IT DOES little to inspire confidence in local government that its national body sees new taxes as the answer to revenue woes.

There was only one place to be in the Far North on the night before Waitangi festivities began, and that was the home of former Labour MP Shane Jones.

Friday's commemoration of the 175th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi produced little of the aggression of past years...

Pops Bratz triumphed over the competition to take out the grand title at the Whanau Triple Challenge tournament at Lindvart Park on Saturday.

The music stopped at 6.30pm on January 26 when Dennis Collins passed peacefully away.

It is 20 years since the treaty settlement process began in earnest. Settlements have gone some way to right the wrongs, and build Maori community strength.

What has 142 wheels, pumps out 1590 horsepower, weighs 190 tonnes and needs three drivers to keep it on the road? The biggest thing ever seen on Northland roads.

Ahipara's Gumdiggers Cafe is not unused to serving celebrities, although most do their best to remain incognito, or at least avoid the attention of fans.

I realise that Moon from Nelson has every right to freedom of speech, as do I. But being a prime example of a Maori-bashing redneck that has absolutely no idea...

NEW ZEALAND FIRST leader Winston Peters initially showed some modicum of restraint when Northland MP Mike Sabin announced his resignation from politics on Friday...

The Kaikohe Volunteer Fire Brigade has entered a team for the Sky Tower Stair Challenge for the first time this year...

Protests against Statoil's seismic oil exploration off western Northland and the "dubious" way the government had "bulldozed" the granting of deep sea oil exploration permits continue...

Te Amo-haere Rudolph gave every impression yesterday that she didn't have a care in the world. But she has. And she is not alone.

Prime Minister John Key has described his former Northland colleague Mike Sabin as potentially having the makings of a Cabinet minister.

New Zealand's outrigger canoe "first family" - the King whanau from Cable Bay - lived up to their royal reputation at the recent 26th ActivePost Waka Ama Sprint National Championships.

Rueben Porter (good Maori name that!) can march wherever he likes. There is no law against it, and the exercise may do him good.

Child poverty has become a new frontier for socialist activism, transformed from a social cause into a political agenda...

Several Far North land owners can expect hefty bills in the mail after a spate of fires around the district, one of which threatened a major Mid North forestry block on Tuesday evening.

The death of a 67-year-old man Englishman, who was believed to have suffered no more than moderate injuries when the car driven by his wife crashed off State Highway 1 at Ohaeawai on Monday.

A Northland teacher who allegedly locked an unruly student in a room, only letting him out when his bus arrived, has been charged with kidnapping, along with five charges of assaulting a child.