Momentum is starting to build for the fundraising campaign to help Brooke Ah Sam get to California at the end of this month and compete at an international crossfit event.

Marine mammal expert has raised concerns that whales and dolphins may be endangered by sonar and seismic exploration for deep sea oil in Statoil's permit zone off Northland.

All together now

The royal treatment

The Houhora Riding Settlers' and Ratepayers' Association has launched another bid to spare Houhora Harbour from continued over-exploitation.

Everything about the Far North is a new experience for the new officer in charge at the Mangonui police station.

Peter De Verus, who wrote, produced, directed and acted in the film, hosted a screening of the short film No Cigar for local cast members.

Three wins from three fights for the three young fighters representing the Kaeo Boxing Club at the Supercity Boxing Gym tournament in Manukau.

Once again, the Northland's sub unions are preparing to do battle in the annual Northland Primary Schools Rugby event, the Taniwha Shield.

A packed house at St Joseph's Church in Kaitaia on Sunday ensured that Father Sean O'Connor celebrated his 50th jubilee as a priest in good company.

The Kaitaia CIB is challenging Kaitaia to help catch the person who robbed Coast 2 Coast bakery on Sunday morning.

"I get threatened with violence, and I get death threats, but when somebody starts taking shots at my office then that's another matter altogether."

100 people, including associate Housing Minister Tariana Turia, gathered at the He Korowai Trust housing project in Kaitaia for the launch of He Whare huru He Oranga Tngata - The Mori housing strategy.

Furniture Court Kerikeri has a new show room, now situated in the main shopping area, Klinac Lane beside Lighting Plus in Waipapa.

There must be some sort of strategy discussion before potential Birdmen and Birdwomen jump off the wharf and sail through the air at the annual Birdman Festival in Russell.

Living this far north means having to travel to Auckland occasionally and if you don't have rellies or friends to stay with there's a scramble to find somewhere to sleep and eat.

A young woman who admits she is scared of chooks is now running a free range chicken farm that's home to hundreds and hundreds of the little twittering critters.

A couple of years ago the Kaeo Post Office building on the little town's main street was spruced up. Out of those celebrations has come a book written by local author Fiona Craig.

The children of Mission Place Kindergarten are getting a head start in the basics of rugby, netball, football and bat-and-ball styled games.

Three weapons believed to have been gifted by the Ngapuhi chief Hongi Hika to missionary James Kemp were last week unveiled in a new display befitting their significance.

World of their own

Do as you're told

If anyone in Kaitaia's retail sector deserves to be regarded as a legend it is probably David Panther.

The Far North District Council is supporting an investigation of its activities by the Serious Fraud Office, announced yesterday by Mayor John Carter.

Police are investigating the aggravated robbery of a bakery in Kaitaia's main street early on Sunday morning.

In winning a sudden-death showdown in dramatic come-from-behind fashion, Northland College has earned the right to represent the province.

SO there he was, The Offsider, watching as a rotten apple nearly spoiled the bunch.......

It's far from a secret society, but much of the work that has been done by the Kaitaia Rotary Club over the past six decades has probably gone unremarked upon by most of the town's citizens.

Tamariki first

Shelley Sullivan is back home in Kaitaia, and back in front of her class at Pamapuria School, but still bubbling with the excitement of her latest foray to Uganda, her first in five years.