ONE-TIME broadcaster, Mayor and Maori Party candidate Derek Fox knows what it's like to hold (and express) a minority view, but...

Ahipara resident Jacquie Klever had only sympathy for the family of the 9-year-old Remuera boy, named by police as Rowan Willis, who died when the motorised cart he was driving rolled on 90 Mile.

A substantial quantity of manuka honey was destroyed when fire broke out at Awanui's Mana Kai Honey Whare (formerly known as the fish factory) on Saturday.

Searches of the shoreline, in the water and from the air have failed to find any sign of the 25-year-old man who went missing while diving just 50 metres off the beach at Cable Bay.

As the Far North's most recently capped international athlete, Krystal Murray made the most of her summer holidays by returning home to spend time with family and friends and also keep in shape.

The Kaitaia Gymnastics Club's competitive and recreational gymnasts all spent time during December competing for end-of-year prizegiving medals and trophies.

Everyone who lives in Kaikohe will know Josh Matene, by sight if not by name. He is always out and about, and if there's a gig in town, especially one involving music, he'll be there.

My son was the young man whose jaw was broken (in Paihia on Saturday) and had surgery to repair his jaw...

No one celebrates the end of one year and the beginning of another more enthusiastically than the people of Pawarenga.

Homegrown cowboys were in the money during the various events on the NZRCA 2014/15 circuit known as the Christmas Run.

A spectacular pile up between three V8 cars driven, surprisingly, by the district's most experienced and daring racers proved the highlight for many from the New Year Meet at Taipa speedway.

Coastguard's latest boating safety initiative, the 'Old4New Lifejacket Upgrade' campaign, which has seen a van laden with brand new lifejackets visiting boat ramps around the northern region.

The Kaitaia branch of the SPCA is in the process of merging with the Kerikeri-based Bay of Islands branch. And that's not all that's new.

Looking to tomorrowI respond briefly to your article about my actions to address the lack of public concern about the oil companies coming to pillage and pollute our seas and coastlines.

AMERICA is the land of the free, according to The Star Spangled Banner. Whether it remains so 201 years after Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that became the national anthem is a moot point.

Tom Baker was past the first flush of youth when he arrived in Kerikeri 24 years ago, but it took him just four days to get stuck in to helping the community.

Inquiries into a two-car crash on State Highway 1 just south of the Aupouri Forest headquarters on Sunday evening were continuing yesterday.

Take some killer weather, throw in some serious interest from both locally and further afield, add a cash incentive to make things competitive, and a dash of fundraising for good karma, and voila.

What happened to the initial agreement between the government and Sky City whereby in return for allowing?

There is no doubting the passion behind Rueben Taipari Porter's opposition to exploring and/or drilling for oil in Te Reinga Basin, but he did enormous damage to any faint hope he might have had.

"Positive and constructive" was Mayor John Carter's verdict after a discussion with Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism John Key last week on the subject of provincial air services.

Taipa man Mark Osborne wasn't as quick as some to point the finger at commercial fishermen after he found hundreds of dead snapper floating over a wide area at the entrance to Doubtless Bay.

The search for a 16-year-old North Shore boy who was swept away while swimming in rough conditions at 90 Mile Beach on Saturday was scaled down on Sunday.

The high clay bank at Taipa Speedway proved to be an attraction for a couple of saloon racers on where, after a few rainy days, the track surface was reportedly in superb condition.

Far North Surf Rescue began its first official surf patrol of the new summer season at Ahipara on Saturday.

A new heritage park commemorating the first chapter in New Zealand's history as a nation of Maori and Pakeha was officially opened in the Bay of Islands on Sunday.

An 840ha coastal farm dogged by decades of controversy has been bought by a Far North iwi to ensure the land is never lost again.

Some people scoff at our national anthem.

All has not been well in the paradise that is the beach at Ahipara over recent summers, and the Ahipara Komiti Takutaimoana has responded to those issues by producing and displaying posters.