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.

Justice and reality

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.

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...

Just off a Far North main highway, among rolling rolls dotted with veggies and vines, a serious crime is being committed this very moment.

The Te Houtaewa Challenge

Designs on the Environment

A man shed for the heavies

It was hard to escape the telly bombardment of phone, app and computer sales before and after Christmas

The summer offers some great fishing in the Far North.

Wet Wet Wet

The Jennian Homes SBL and TTT Classic kicked off after a long break with games played on both Friday and Saturday.

Ideal conditions and a positive attitude enabled the first Surf's Up event of the summer at Ahipara on Saturday to become a major success.

An Oruru teenager who abandoned his grievously injured passenger after crashing his car, then told police he had been robbed of the vehicle at gunpoint, was severely criticised by Judge Greg Davis in the Kaitaia District Court.