Hope and Faith have a big role to play
Two very small birds, known to their human protectors as Hope and Faith, have a big role to play in the future of their species at Ahipara.
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It really is cheaper at the tip
Northland Regional Council area manager Peter Wiessing took little time to identify the owner of bags of rubbish dumped into the Awanui River from Kaitaia's Allen Bell Drive bridge.
Omapere Fire Brigade needs you - now
The Omapere Fire Brigade will be at Saturday's Wild West Festival at Waimamaku and will be actively hunting recruits.
A tino rangatiratanga initiative in kura
The long-term focus of an innovative programme launched by a Kaitaia kura earlier this month is to provide students with healthy eating and lifestyle choices.
Club marks Colgate success
The Kaitaia Athletics Club recommenced for the final term of the 2013 summer last Tuesday evening on the Kaitaia College bottom fields....
Youth is a one-boy crime wave
A 15-year-old boy who sparked a violent incident at Kaitaia's skatebowl on Sunday evening was to appear before the Youth Court in Kaitaia yesterday, where police intended to oppose bail.
'One of the neatest little shows'
Saturday's North Hokianga A&P show attracted the biggest crowd in years to the grounds at Broadwood, a fitting response to the effort that had gone into staging the 100th annual event.
NRC - Let's do it right
The Northland Regional Council has no doubt that the local government restructuring process that is now under way represents a great opportunity for Northland to establish a new regime that will benefit the entire region...
Street racer heads into battle
To describe Patric Nussbaum as one unhappy camper risks becoming one of the understatements of the year so far.
Wily campaigners overcome one-eyed dog
The weather played an important part in the Centennial Bay of Islands Sheepdog Trials which were held on Te Ahu Ahu mountain last Friday and Saturday.
Pastor easing into a new church role
Changing vocations is not especially unusual, but few could match what 53-year-old Earl Joe has done.
Reminiscences on a Far North institution
It is nearly 50 years since the Mansbridge family left the Broadwood district, but my family and I remain very proud of our on-going association with this beautiful valley and the people who live here, or have lived here.
Who knows what green waste is?
Like his father Neville before him, Sandhills Road (Ahipara) farmer Dion Masters is happy to provide a spot just inside his roadside gate where people can dump their green waste, without charge.
Motorbike passenger killed in collision
A 60-year-old woman died at the scene of a head-on crash between a car and the motorcycle on which she was a pillion passenger at the foot of the Karikari Peninsula.
Cleaning up on the A&P Show circuit
A local mother and her son both returned good results at the North Kaipara A&P Show held from January 31 to February 1.
Surge in numbers worthy of envy
If the numbers of cars in the carpark of the Church Road Bowling Club are anything to go by, the Kaitaia Bridge Club continues to enjoy a surge of popularity that would make it the envy of any local sporting club.
'The Pa Boys' back where it began
It wasn't released until Waitangi Day, but a small audience gathered at Te Ahu in Kaitaia on Monday for an advance screening of the highly anticipated New Zealand 'road' movie The Pa Boys.
Apology to Ngati Kuri for 'egregious failures'
The Crown apology to Ngati Kuri acknowledged that it had failed to uphold the promises made in the Treaty of Waitangi to actively protect Maori interests, and to confirm and guarantee tino rangatiratanga, in its relationship with the iwi.
Longliner will fish another day
A commercial longliner that was driven ashore at Mangonui by Thursday night's nor-easterly storm was winched back into the water under her own steam on Friday's high tide.
A big step in resolving grievances
Friday's signing of a deed of settlement between Ngati Kuri and the Crown at Ngataki's Waiora Marae represented an important step towards settling all historical grievances in the Far North, and New Zealand as a whole.
The transformation of Kaikohe's popular sports expo
Over the past four years since its establishment, the event formerly known as the Kaikohe Kids Sports Expo has grown from strength to strength, and that progression was expected to continue this year...
Large numbers of anglers turn out for 90 Mile field day
The first field day of the new year hosted by the 90 Mile Beach Surfcasting Club attracted a large number of anglers and fish alike.
Protest may involve Cape road blockade
The majority of Te Hapua residents do not want their iwi to sign a deed of settlement of Treaty claims with the Crown tomorrow, says Te Hapua Ahi Kaa, and have called on the Ngati Kuri Trust Board not to do so.
Quad bike joyride ends abruptly
One minute, two burglary suspects were reportedly joyriding on a rural metal road south of Kaitaia aboard an allegedly stolen quad bike.
Royal treatment for Madam Ambassador
Cuba's ambassador to New Zealand, Maria del Carmen Herrera Caseiro, and her husband Manuel Sanchez Oliva, received the royal treatment as guests of Te Tai Tokerau MP and Mana Party leader Hone Harawira, his wife Hilda and their family on Sunday.
Kaitaia honour rolls have errors, omissions
The Kaitaia cenotaph plaques recording the names of the men who died in the service of King and country in the early part of World War 1 have deteriorated badly over the 98 years since they were erected, but are about to be refurbished...