A former curator/manager of Kaitaia's Far North Regional Museum has accused its successor, the Te Ahu Heritage Museum, of cultural vandalism.

Everyone will be welcome at Kaikohe's Lindvart Park next week for the naming ceremony and the formal flicking of the switch to turn on the newly-installed lights.

Ahipara man Kevin Griffiths has added to his national reputation as a very talented mouth painter with success at a major New Zealand art competition.

What unemployment?

Pete Watson won the heaviest snapper prize of $500 with this 10.3kg fish at the Houhora Big Game & Sports Fishing Club's Easter Sportsfishing Contest, held Saturday and Sunday, April 19 and 20.

Among those celebrating five decades of links play at Ahipara over Easter weekend earlier this month were several members of the exclusive Originals club.

The inaugural Conversations that Count awareness day was celebrated in Northland earlier this month.

Early in the year of 1914, residents of a little, quiet valley in the Far North were getting on with their daily lives.

Jones will be missed

Senior resultsMuriwhenua Kuaka 10 Portland Panthers 40: Hard to imagine Muriwhenua could have played much worse in their first game at their new home venue at the Kaitaia A&P Showgrounds on Saturday

Kerikeri Bay Builders 2 Airforce 1 (ht 1-1): The Northland premier division champions began their 2014 Chatham Cup campaign with a win over Airforce at Waipapa in clear, nippy mid-autumn conditions on Easter Monday.

Tokerau Beach man Ivan Conlon knows a good deal about his father Arthur and uncle Elmer, but many gaps remain to be filled. And some of the questions concerning Elmer are whoppers.

Your columnist Joe Carr suggests the Ministry for Primary Industries is penny-pinching on biosecurity. This is not the case.

A floating dock that broke free from a privately-owned island during Cyclone Lusi is posing a serious threat to marine life along Northland's east coast.

The voice of Te Tai Tokerau has been silent as the Mana Party makes a "whole lot of noise" about who it will form an alliance with, according to Labour electorate committee chairman Haydn Edmonds.

Fiona Beale is one of the lucky ones. A self-confessed "massive pot head" in her younger days, she wasted no time in embracing synthetic cannabis.

Far North born and bred Labour MP Shane Jones will leave politics at the end of next month, saying he had come to the conclusion over Easter that it was time to go.

Two girls born and bred in the Far North are making waves in the Auckland boxing scene.

A 37-year-old Kaikohe woman who chained up a dog and let it starve to death has been convicted in the Kaikohe District Court.

Top of Kaeo man Tom Gordon's shopping list is a personal locator beacon.

The appointment of a commissioner at Pamapuria School will be of minimal cost to the school, vastly less than the $206,000 cited on Tuesday (School kids going without to pay the commissioner, Northland Age April 15).

Luck played no part in Muriwhenua's stunning success at last weekend's Te Tai Tokerau senior kapa haka competition in Whangarei.

There's no doubt the Tigers - one of the most successful Bay of Islands teams in the province over the past decade - are hurting.

The biggest turnout ever by students representing schools across the province in this year's Northland Scholastic Surfing Series left organisers in no doubt the sport was currently enjoying a massive surge in interest.

The worm is turning

Blame the mayors

They died a lifetime and more ago, but fresh tears were shed for those who served in World War II, and the Great War before it, and did not return to their families when a roll of honour was unveiled at the Waiharara Hall.

Karena Hart is a solo mum who works hard for what she and her 6-year-old son Rangi have.

Taipa teenager Talia Rogers was crowned Miss Far North New Zealand 2014 at Te Ahu on Saturday night.

The Ministry of Education-appointed commissioner at Pamapuria School has cost the school more than $200,000. And that has outraged at least one Pamapuria parent.