Hokianga residents are being urged to make use of a new bus service to Kaikohe, to make sure it survives beyond a 15-week trial.

Two of the Far North's best-known faces were transformed on Tuesday, when Mayor John Carter and Kaitaia pharmacist Eric Shackleton had their heads shaved for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand...

Kaitaia police have launched a new appeal for news of 49-year-old Cable Bay woman Leeann Ailini Scott, who was last seen at Taipa on December 12.

Organisers of the annual Houhora One Base big game fishing tournament could probably feel entitled to give themselves a quiet pat on the back following the success of this year's event.

Rugby league once gain took the initiative in the Cold War against its rugby union counterparts...

Simple reasons why I won't be voting for a JAFA.

WIN OR LOSE, National won't forget the 2015 by-election in Northland in a hurry. And win or lose, hopefully it will have learned not to take the region's support for granted.

Tears were not far away last week when Dudley Andrews met the two small boys whose lives he saved off 90 Mile Beach on March 1. And no one was closer to tears than Mr Andrews himself.

Dunedin woman Stephanie Sommers first saw the picture of the little church, apparently somewhere near Ahipara, more than 20 years ago.

Kerry Hewitt joined a small and prestigious club when he speared an 84kg fish 12 miles off the Hokianga Harbour...

SO there he was, The Offsider, getting rather excited at the prospect of seeing some epic waves in his backyard courtesy of Tropical Cyclone Pam.

It always disheartens me to see the lack of application of soil erosion principles to basic roadside stormwater drainage...

The Royal New Zealand RSA has labelled the timing of the referendum that could lead to a new flag as unacceptable.

The Far North's best known, and at almost half a century old possibly longest-surviving moustache has joined the endangered species list...

Abundant Life School (Kaitaia) principal Mark Tan has four words for those who do not believe in the power of the individual - "Look at Travis Burrows."

On the eve of the 175th anniversary of the sacking of Russell and the outbreak of war in the North, Ngati Hine is leading another rebellion, this time against family violence.

It took until the last day of this year's 2015 Snapper Bonanza for the ultimate winner to be revealed.

There was a thrilling and dramatic climax to this year's Radz Challenge when a massive blue marlin weighing 280.5kg failed to make the cut-off time by only 10 minutes...

The relief that swept over the country when the developers who had planned to fell a supposedly 500-year-old kauri tree in West Auckland backed down...

Six people, one of them an 8-year-old boy who according to police had been travelling unrestrained (and could well lose his front teeth), were injured in a head-on crash on Matthews Avenue...

Cyclone Pam staged a stellar performance at Taupo Bay according to resident Brian Carter, but Northland appeared yesterday to have emerged largely unscathed.

Fire brigades around the Far North were stretched late last week, to the point where at one stage a crew from Kaikohe was called to cover for Kaitaia, and another from Whangarei...

His younger brother is getting married this weekend but Boris Jurlina won't be there to see it.

As of yesterday afternoon, with several hours fishing remaining before day two of the 2015 Snapper Bonanza was completed, no one had pulled in a snapper to better the 8.245kg specimen caught by Mike Dowden.

In reply to Mayor John Carter's article, Places powered by people (Northland Age, March 5), as a member of the Te Hiku Sports Hub I would like to present again our vision for Kaitaia as centre of the top of New Zealand, Te Hiku ward.

Mangonui man Ian Lange got more than he bargained for when he went to empty his mullet net near Mill Bay last Saturday morning.

A "massive" community effort coupled with a Weet-Bix-eating frenzy has seen a Kaitaia primary school win $5000.

The Winston Peters show arrived in Kaitaia yesterday, drawing a crowd of at least 80 supporters, hecklers and the plain curious who spilled on to the road outside the town's post office.