Friends of Kaitaia teenager Te Amo-haere Rudolph's family lost no opportunity to fill their icecream containers and buckets with cash at Kaitaia's market on Saturday...

Far North electors have voted against establishing Maori wards for the 2016 and 2019 Far North District Council elections.

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.

Brad and Lesley Roberts were emphatic winners in the 2015 Northland Dairy Industry Awards.

Open letter to Hon Nathan Guy, Minister for Primary Industries, regarding Houhora Harbour marine exploitation and recreational status request.

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.

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.

Having dominated the competition for the previous two years, the Te Rarawa Football Club is aiming to secure a three-peat by winning the under-8 division for the third year running when the Kaitaia junior football winter season kicks off later this year.

The Houhora One Base celebrates its 21st anniversary this year with the annual major big gamefishing tournament set to run from Wednesday to Saturday, March 18-21 (the week after the Snapper Bonanza wraps up).

IT WOULD be nice if politicians and took a leaf out of Hippocrates' book, and resolved to first do no harm. Too often policies, supposedly devised by politicians and enacted by bureaucrats, do very real harm, nine times out of 10 for no better reason than

An agreement that aims to protect the Taumarere River while allowing a controversial marina extension to go ahead at Opua is being hailed a "win win" by the hapu that initially opposed it.

National has pledged to spend up to $69 million replacing 10 one-lane bridges in Northland over the next six years, including notoriously narrow and flood-prone bridges at Taipa, Kaeo and Rangiahua.

Kaitaia Abundant Life School student Travis Burrows will put his fitness to the test tomorrow on behalf of an ailing schoolmate.

The clear winner of Saturday's pageant at Te Ahu was Danielle Collings, who happens to be a receptionist at this newspaper's Commerce Street headquarters. The 19-year-old from Doubtless Bay also took out the Miss Catwalk title.

For the first time in almost 50 years the race to be Northland's next MP is wide open with polls showing New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has a real chance of breaking National's decades-old grip on the seat.