The Ngati Hau and Puhipuhi Mining Action Group (PMAG) has told the Northland Economic Advisory Group that the region has alternatives to the mining of minerals.

The family whose bach at Whangape was burnt to the ground last week, for the second time in a year, are devastated, but determined to find the culprit.

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This is debate?

Northland's three district and one regional councils are set to be merged into one Northland-wide unitary authority, the Northland Council, if the region accepts the draft proposal

A thief has thoroughly inconvenienced Kohukohu

A Mangamuka farmer who went to the aid of a log truck driver who lost control of his trailer on Tuesday last week says she will think twice before doing so again.

The father of one of Daniel Luke Taylor's victims had described the Kaitaia man's prison term of five years and 10 months as a joke.

Cat's out

There isn't a civilization on earth throughout millennia that hasn't adopted some form of esoteric philosophy, recognizing there is something more than we mere mortals. You'd have to wonder, then, why it's called New Age.

A last-minute try in a come-from-behind win saw Moerewa take out the third and final leg of the 2013 Northland Rugby Sevens at Simson Park on Saturday.

More Year 13 graduates from Bay of Islands than usual will enter tertiary institutes next year.

Praise for police

The Kaitaia Fire Brigade had just 50-odd metres to travel to a blaze at the Sea Dragon restaurant in the town's main street on Friday afternoon.

A major brain fade

Two women were flown to Whangarei Hospital by rescue helicopter after separate incidents over the weekend.

Several hundred people converged on Ahipara's Korou Kore Marae on Friday to discuss government proposals for oil exploration and mining in the Northland region.

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