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...

Anne Te Wake finds it easier now to talk about her son's death in Melbourne on May 28, 2011, but she's still haunted by her visualisation of the fall that killed him.

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...

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

It's been a busy summer for the Northland Emergency Services Trust (NEST), with more people needing assistance in the last two months than ever before.

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.

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.

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...