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High Noon at the A&P Corral
The run-offs in the Kaitaia leg of the Tux Yarding Challenge are about to begin, featuring the top seven qualifiers from Friday and the top five from earlier on the second day.
NAKFA officials lay down traditional gauntlet
Organisers of the annual 7-a-side summer social football tournament have once again issued their usual challenge to other Far North sporting institutions to place gifts under the tree in the office of the Northland Age.
No more free snacks for Meg
Kaitaia Intermediate School is going to miss Shirley Ogbourne, home economics/food technology teacher there for the last two decades, and her four-legged teacher aide Meg.
Close but no cigar for house movers
An Auckland couple who own a section at Cooper's Beach accidentally acquired a house recently, after it was delivered to the wrong address. And it clearly didn't want to move.
Tribute to 'Something very special'
Some regarded the Croatian immigrants, many of them from the province of Dalmatia, who began arriving in the Far North some 160 years ago, almost universally to dig kauri gum, with suspicion, but they had given much to the new home.
Voila! A beach speed bylaw
Northland MP Mike Sabin has made no progress over the last year in persuading the Far North District Council to introduce a speed restriction on the beach at Ahipara, but that has all changed now.
Marshall duo press on after hot debut
Far North duo determined to impress locals at national drifting championships this weekend
Dinghy race makes a comeback
The renowned Seeka Dinghy Race in Kerikeri is to be reinstated after a lapse of several years
Love blossoms in pastor's kitchen
Finding guidance in life and the comfort of the Lord is has made 90-year-old Kaitaia man Ivan Grbich a faithful churchgoer
A special occasion shared with friends
Rodger Beatson, who responded to his first alarm 52 years ago, was just the 50th recipient when he received his double gold star medal on Monday
MPI: We didn't miss the boat
The Ministry for Primary Industries has rejected the claim that a lack of action on its part has given the invasive Australian sea squirt Pyura doppelgangera (Pyura stolonifera) a four-year head start
Oil company always ready to listen
A Norwegian oil company is pledging openness and a willingness to listen
Sophie adds accolade to fine record
Kerikeri-based showjumper, Sophie Burling, celebrated winning the equestrian code award at the 2013 Konica Minolta Sport Northland Sports Awards held in Whangarei on Friday, November 29.
Onus goes on NorthTec students
NorthTec has put the onus on applied arts students in the Hokianga to prove that the degree course they want would be viable.
Right time, right place
The Kaitaia Fire Brigade didn't get to Te Kao in response to an alarm at 5.30 on Sunday afternoon, but was in the right place at the right time to deal with another emergency.
A vision of housing in the future
Staunch community housing advocate Rueben Taipari and his partner Heeni Hoterene hosted a Northland Housing Forum hui at their home at Ahipara last week.
Is this the end of the mussels?
A Far North conservationist fears the days of recreationally harvesting mussels in the Far North may almost be over thanks to a invasion of the Australian sea squirt Pyura Stolonifera.
Resident suffers smoke inhalation
The 16 elderly residents of Kaeo rest home Kauri Lodge were evacuated at 3am yesterday after a switchboard caught fire and filled the building with acrid smoke.