Kasey and Karena Bird, the Bay of Plenty sisters who won last year's NZ Master Chef title, know about life in small towns...

Six months ago the ferocious bombardment on Gaza stopped. While the guns may have fallen silent the war continues for the children of Gaza.

Eight-year-old Te Paea Rameka has had more health issues over the last year than many people would face in a lifetime. But she's never lost the beaming smile...

Police seized what they believed to be a substantial haul of stolen property from a house at Ahipara yesterday, spreading it out on the lawn and painstakingly recording it in detail.

Police displayed exquisite timing when they raided a house on Mataraua Road, south of Kaikohe, on Sunday morning. A fresh batch of methamphetamine was reportedly cooking when they arrived...

The Houhora Fishing Club was in the thick of the action in the New Zealand Sports Fishing Council 2015 nationals competition, with 15 impressive specimens bought into the Far North weigh station....

The saying the devil finds work for idle hands can certainly be applied to Kaitaia.

I would like to take this opportunity of writing to your paper to express our thanks for the many acts of kindness and support we experienced when our campervan and a truck collided....

THERE'S nothing like a by-election to bring out the opportunist in some politicians...

The National Party chose former Te Ahu manager Mark Osborne as its candidate for the Northland by-election.

Police had no doubt that two small Kaitaia boys, aged around 5 or 6, were in imminent danger of drowning when a former soldier went to their rescue on 90 Mile Beach on Sunday afternoon.

A significant number of marlin and yellowfin tuna were either bought to the weigh station and or tagged and released during the 2015 Hihi Marlin Classic.

Drag race for revved-up 90 Milers

St John volunteers from Kohukohu have been a fixture at the North Hokianga A&P show at Broadwood for years, not to promote what they and their organisation do but in case they are needed.

Hells' bells and buggy wheels ...

Heather Ayrton JP, QSM, has brought an end to 40 years of service as a Justice of the Peace, a contribution to her community that was acknowledged at a luncheon last week.

At least some of the firefighters who were dispatched to a two-vehicle crash on the Awanui Straight, two kilometres north of Kaitaia, on Monday afternoon...

A 61-year-old sailor became the first person to be convicted of deliberately concealing biosecurity goods on a visiting yacht when she appeared before the District Court at Kaikohe last week.

Kaitaia can thank Paul Reeves' father for the fact that it has benefited from his son's skill as a dentist for the last three decades.

The teenage brain is a strange and fascinating place...

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...

Norwegian oil company Statoil, which has begun the process of exploring for oil and gas in Te Reinga Basin, was back in the Far North this week...