Three iwi - Te Aupouri, Ngai Takoto and Te Rarawa - are keenly interested in the jaw and bones that will be salvaged from a 10-metre sperm whale that came ashore on 90 Mile Beach last week, but getting at that material is a job for the experts.
Telling the stories he has accumulated may well take 20-year-old Auckland man Brando Yelavich almost as long as it has taken him to trek around New Zealand's coastline.
A bottlenose dolphin thought to have lost her calf after becoming stranded in the Kerikeri Inlet five years ago has adopted a baby of another species.
Northland season starts Northland rugby supporters will once again don their replica jerseys and drag their old Cambridge Blue coloured scarves out of the closet and converge upon Toll Stadium to watch the Taniwha playing their first game of the ITM Cup (
Bay competitionKotuuku Hokianga Kura beat Taheke in Bay of Islands netball in Kaikohe on Saturday to progress to the A grade final on Saturday August 23.
The Northland DHB has confirmed five further cases of measles in Northland (initially reported earlier this week as six). The victims, all children in the Hokianga and all unimmunised, had been in contact with the first case reported on July 29.
Finally the bridge has gone PROBLEM SOLVED: The footbridge at the end of Taaffe Street, Kaitaia was finally dismantled on Monday.
What was planned as a workshop to discuss future plans of Statoil marine exploration off the Far North's west coast in Kaitaia on Monday deteriorated into open hostility.
A 47-year-old unemployed Whangape man has been jailed for 19 years for his part in a major methamphetamine operation that was put out of business by police in 2012.
Local dartists returned from Rotorua where they once again boxed above their weight while representing the district.
A trio of Kaitaia gymnasts have achieved some excellent results at elite level while competing in Auckland competition over the past few weeks.
Memories flowed like cold beer in the old public bar when more than 70 people, including many a former patron, gathered at Friday's farewell for the Kaikohe Hotel.
The scam itself is familiar, but fraudsters offering to fix a computer problem may now be deliberately targeting the elderly.
The first thing that happens when someone who works for the police achieves a service milestone is that someone with rank pulls out their personal file.
Damp and cool conditions proved to be no problem for the 430 entrants in the Juken NZ Kaitaia Run/Walk
Labour's Te Tai Tokerau candidate Kelvin Davis has delivered a broadside at Internet Party founder Kim Dotcom.
Raw sewage overflows from Kaitaia's wastewater system dozens of times a year thanks to years of neglect.
Feathers were flying in Kaitaia last week when the Department of Conservation hosted a manu huruhuru (bird pelting) workshop, the first of its kind to be open to the public.
Reassuring findings emerged from last month's storm.