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...

Kaitaia College 66 Okaihau 22: The 2015 NorthTec Adam Blair competition got away to another early start this year with the first game taking place between the two Far North schools...

John Horan has made his living by various means over the years - as a young man he completed his printer's apprenticeship at the Northland Age then headed for the UK...

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...

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...

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

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...

The final resting place of Opo the Friendly Dolphin, whose antics made headlines around the country during the summer of 1955, has been given formal heritage recognition.

I note with interest the letter from Mr Simon Allan Wet Crew and Committee Member - Far North Radio and Sea Rescue, January 26.

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.