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.

The Omapere Fire Brigade will be at Saturday's Wild West Festival at Waimamaku and will be actively hunting recruits.

Elder fears for safety in backlash over deal

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.

The Kaitaia Athletics Club recommenced for the final term of the 2013 summer last Tuesday evening on the Kaitaia College bottom fields....

Another day at work

More than animals

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.

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.

To describe Patric Nussbaum as one unhappy camper risks becoming one of the understatements of the year so far.

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.

Changing vocations is not especially unusual, but few could match what 53-year-old Earl Joe has done.

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.

Different song sheets

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.

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.

A local mother and her son both returned good results at the North Kaipara A&P Show held from January 31 to February 1.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

A good thing

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.

One minute, two burglary suspects were reportedly joyriding on a rural metal road south of Kaitaia aboard an allegedly stolen quad bike.

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.

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...