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Editorial: English gives up on Waitangi too soon

Waitangi Day has provided an insight to the character of successive prime ministers ever since Norman Kirk made it a national holiday.

How many illegal dumps are out there?

How many illegal dumps are there around Northland? We know of at least two - this region's second large-scale roadside tip emerged

Dark arts? Reality is more mundane

COMMENT: There are people who truly believe journalism is a dark art practised by latter-day witches who seek only to deceive readers by telling them glorious lies.

A tragedy within a tragedy

by Craig CooperEditor Young rugby player Jordan Kemp was given the OK to head back out on to a rugby field with a ticking time bomb

Editorial: Choose your posts carefully

More and more people are posting snippets of their life online. They're capturing their day at the beach, the family dog's latest

$3m investment bordering on tokenism

by Craig CooperEditor There is a delicious irony in taking money off criminals and investing it back into our communities. Although

Time to take a breath over Smith tryst

Not everyone who has judged Aaron Smith after his tryst in a disabled toilet with an air hostess, has crucified him. There will be

Inside Out opinion: Band leader ignores letter on rock star economy

I WROTE a letter to my main bro' John Key about his rock star economy a while ago, and the reality of the regions mostly being about

Borrowed record returned after 30 years

It's always good to return things people have left at your house. Children, small dogs, cars. This past week, I returned a Tina

Andrew McGiven: Collective strength a big plus

Chris Lewis: Why we won't bow to blackmail

Editorial: Our lovely town's dirty little secret

Northern Advocate editor Craig Cooper says there is much more work to do to make Whangarei a tourist paradise, with the town hiding a dirty little secret about safety.