The Far North didn't escape yesterday's cold snap.

State Highway 10 east of Taipa was blocked for some time on Monday evening while the Armed Offenders' Squad searched for a 23-year-old man.

The 'Cops vs Kids' fear factor competition staged in Kaitaia on Friday should have come with the warning 'Do not try this at home.'

Football

Players from Waiuku North featured for the 29 teams entered into the Men's Memorial Triples played over the weekend of May 10-11.

Family means a great deal to Michelle Chapman-Cullen, but after 22 years she has removed her 'mum hat', and replaced it with that of MiMo Culcha the artist.

Money for nothing

An inspiring cuppa

Every journey begins with a single step...

SO there he was, The Offsider, pleasantly surprised to get some great surf shots from one of his old haunts the other day.

Local racing mothers and grandparents stole the limelight in the Kaikohe Speedway's final meet of the summer.

Something to live for

A group of Northland motorcycle enthusiasts made another contribution to breaking the silence on suicide last week.

Northland is gaining a negative reputation among animal welfare groups and shelters for its high rate of animal dumping, cruelty and neglect.

The Mangonui Lions Club didn't have to go far to find a worthy recipient of a Lions Children of Courage award for bravery.

Robert Pink has been a God send to "our little community of Rawene," according to the admirer who has nominated him for a Pride of New Zealand award (community spirit).

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A much-loathed roundabout in Kerikeri is to get a makeover after a series of crashes and public complaints.

Hardly Armageddon

Don McCulloch can be forgiven for the fact that he knew nothing of the battle for Cassino, in Italy, where New Zealand troops served with distinction...

Collaborative approach aids Maori housing cause

If the response to the opening of the Far North Hospice shop, Take 2, in Kaitaias main street on Friday was anything to go by it will do a great job of raising funds for the organisation.

If any of those who were arrested and flung into a police cell outside The Warehouse in Kaitaia on Saturday didnt want to be there they did a good job of hiding it.

Mitchell Nield won his fourth national enduro and with a round to spare in the King Country on Saturday.

A veteran marksman has donated a large number of his medals and trophies to the Far North Special Olympics.

Transition Town Kaitaia has unearthed a unique link between a "radically different" Caribbean chocolate enterprise and Far North stained glass artist Kathy Shaw-Urlich (Ngapuhi, Ngati Hau).

Orchardists are always happy to see a horde of willing pickers hove over the horizon when fruit needs to be harvested, but those who arrived at Tony and Diane Hewitt's property at Waiharara last week were something special.

Different times

The site of one of Northland's most significant shipwrecks has been given legal protection as an archaeological amid concerns that divers have been raiding what is in effect a mass grave.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Mayor John Carter. It won't be executed until Saturday, when he will be handcuffed and placed in a cell.