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Write a regular column on sustainability and it's natural to discuss climate-change facts and issues from time to time.

Rural

Big bucks back misinformation

The Waitangi Tribunal has heard how Northland rivers have gone from clear and teeming with fish to polluted and all but lifeless in a generation.

Sport

Cost of Pakeha progress counted

Staff at a local Northland primary school are prepared to deal with life-threatening food allergy reactions in their students.

News

Food allergies put schoolchildren at risk

International rally teams are using NorthTec Future Trades workshop as a base, giving students a unique insight into the rally racing industry.

News

Students land special rally opportunity

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Constitution Conversation

Maori lost large swathes of land in the Bay of Islands - including islands now used as millionaires' hideaways - as recently as the 1970s, the Waitangi Tribunal has been told.

News

Modern waka trip for tribunal

Garments constructed from newspaper sheets channelling the steam-punk style will be walking down a runway at NorthTec's fashion department.

News

Paper garments to have a newsy look

It's hard to write a simple description of Lale Alldred's new Maori liaison job at North Haven Hospice.

News

Maori to get hospice heads up

A 17-year-old Kerikeri High School student has been named Northland's Youth MP for 2013.

News

Youth MP is keen to learn more

MANY Northlanders would have been there, staring down the barrel of a life-changing injury to their neck - of becoming a quadriplegic overnight.

Sport

Think twice before moving an injured player

Former Northlander John Paitai has been appointed acting principal of Bay of Islands College in Kawakawa.

News

Acting head appointed

Last month far away in a village not unlike Whangarei, something extraordinary happened.

Opinion

Nickie Muir: Spectre of pollution

Whangarei's Matthew Courtney had to do it tough in Guam as he grappled his way to two gold and two bronze medals at the Oceania Continental Championships.

Sport

Wrestling: Weight battle for new champ

A $1000 fine may have to be imposed for anyone avoiding jury service, a judge says.

News

Jurors failing to make court

The Primary Industries ministerial portfolio is a large, challenging one. For Horowhenua farmer and Otaki MP Nathan Guy the first few weeks on the job have been hectic, with the most severe drought since the 1940s striking the North Island and parts of the South, reports Felicity Wolfe

Rural

The farming Cabinet: Who you need to know

Northlander in Sydney CrossFit contest

Sport

Muscling up for champs

A Northland school plagued by leaky building issues, including five classrooms needing replacement, has applauded formal Government action seeking costly damages.

News

Leaky school backs legal action

Today we take a look at the remaining five Northland Southern Districts Premier sides.

Sport

Rugby: Rising stars return home

A group set up to help plan Northland's economic development says improved pre-work education, work skills and youth employment are keys to regional growth.

News

Call for collaboration over growth

Mums-to-be are putting their babies at risk by continuing to drink during pregnancy, and even driving under the influence of alcohol.

News

Safer Journeys - North mums-to-be putting babies at risk

My son came home with a letter from his school - always a potentially interesting scenario.

Opinion

Editorial: Anzac Day key part of our essence

The tenure of a controversial Bay of Islands college principal has ended but the nature of his departure remains a mystery.

-lipped on detail The tenure of a controversial Bay of Islands college principal has ended but the nature of his departure remains a mystery.

News

Mystery as head leaves

Lying on a hotel room floor in Hong Kong Mike King was waiting to die after trying to take his own life. But he says he was saved by his daughter ''astroplaning from New Zealand'' telling him to get up and come home.

News

More talk needed on suicide, not less

Gibbston Valley is about as far from New York City as you can get, yet when Sean Brennan was only 10, he decided there was nowhere else he'd rather be.

Lifestyle

Wine: Going solo well worth winemaker's dream

Saturday morning witnessed an unusual sight in Whangarei.

Opinion

Nickie Muir: Have faith in our teachers

A state-of-the-art childcare centre is rising from the ashes of Kaikohe's Kidicorp ABC childcare centre destroyed by fire last year.

News

Destroyed childcare centre to be rebuilt

For the past few months, I've been tootling around the country filming for my wine series, Thirsty Work, for FoodTV, and I've been privileged to spend time with some of the most inspiring, hard-case, hard-working (and in some cases hard-living) individuals you'd hope to meet.

Lifestyle

Wine: Simple things that keep winemakers going

Teachers were out in force in Laurie Hill Park on Saturday, voicing their concerns over stress on the education sector.

News

Teachers take to the streets

One-in-five Whangarei families receiving Government support are living in "a real state of poverty", a local Salvation Army worker says.

News

Child poverty under spotlight

After facing knocks from the Ministry of Education, Moerewa School has received a glowing report from the Education Review Office (ERO).

News

Top marks for Moerewa School in ERO report

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