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.

Another year of gymnastics classes are all ready to go at the Kaitaia Gymnastic Club beginning from next Monday, February 9, for Term 1. Session times for the coming year are as follows.

Kaikohe motor racing enthusiast Fred Courtney's Northland Special racecar, which won the first New Zealand Grand Prix in 1950, will be at the 60th national grand prix at Manfeild in Feilding...

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...

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.

The big game fishing season is starting to show some reel action off the west coast of Ahipara...

Travelling on a recent QantasLink Australian domestic flight, I browsed through the excellent QantasLink in-flight magazine Spirit.

WE'VE long been told that we take sport too seriously in this country...

Kaikohe's senior police officer wasn't surprised to hear last week that some vehicles in the town are sporting alternative registration plates, registration documents and warrant of fitness stickers...

Top Energy is urging Far North residents to prepare themselves for the large-scale power outage scheduled to take place from the North Hokianga north on Sunday.

The Northern Rural Fire Authority warned last week that as of Saturday it would be dispatching a helicopter at the first sign of smoke anywhere in the Far North.

The 30 senior members of the 90 Mile Beach Surfcasting Club participating in the Riders Sports Store/Rogers Motors-sponsored field day were happy to see 13 junior club members alongside them.

Kaitaia teenager TJ Beatson is leaving New Zealand on Saturday to take up a scholarship playing college rugby in the United States.

NEVA Yvonne Morrison was born in Gisborne on April 20, 1920. She had a happy, confident childhood, and was a bright girl and keen to do well, but times were tough.

A short while ago both the Northland Age and the Northern Advocate printed a short and uninspired item on the legal speed when passing a school bus which had stopped to discharge cargo.....

Fire authorities are warning that as of Saturday they will dispatch a helicopter at the first sign of smoke anywhere in the Far North - and they'll be sending the bill...

The Far North District Council yesterday imposed its first water restrictions of the year. The ban on using irrigation systems, sprinklers and hoses (unless hand-held) took effect immediately.

Coastguard's 'Old4New' life jacket campaign did a roaring trade at Pukenui on Saturday, close to 150 jackets that had had their day, some by a considerable margin.