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Northland's Bohemians are preparing to celebrate the arrival in New Zealand of their forebears 150 years ago next month.

News

150 years on, Puhoi celebrates roots

Whangarei secondary school student, youth suicide prevention leader and soon-to-be Te Taitokerau Youth MP Eru Kapa-Kingi talks to Lindy Laird about what is important to him

News

A born communicator - Eru Kapa-Kingi

Dargaville Little Theatre celebrated its 50th jubilee in style during Queen's Birthday weekend.

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Theatre celebrates 50 years

In 1984, I was about to sit School C, David Lange was Prime Minister and Sir Lockwood Smith was a dulcet toned television host asking the hard questions on quiz shows W3 and It's Academic.

Opinion

Editorial: It's nice to be affirmed

The driving force behind the Far North Regional Museum - and the man credited with the original vision for Kaitaia's Te Ahu Centre - has been awarded a Queen's Service Medal for services to the community.

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Museum guardian honoured

Station wagon had been loaded with equipment borrowed for town festival

News

Appeal to return stolen car

$Kawakawa Primary School kids snatched this year's Puff and Pull trophy from defending champs Bay of Islands College by a fraction of a second.$

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Tactics pay off as kids beat college champs

Young people in Whangarei have been given a new place to call their own.

News

New digs for youth in Cafler Park

Northern Advocate reporter Kristin Edge is on a month-long trip in South Korea as part of a Rotary GSE team She is posting regular reports from her overseas adventure.

Opinion

Postcards from the Edge in Korea

Friedensreich Hundertwasser might be giggling in his grave at the irony of New Zealand's national museum storing some of its irreplaceable collection in a building with his name on it in Whangarei.

News

Teaming up with Te Papa

A selection of letters to the Northern Advocate editor.

Opinion

Your Letters: Take a gamble, Bugs for lunch

Australia? Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Big airports, bigger cities.

Lifestyle

Travel: Down the Murray River

Is Whangarei hiding its light under a bushel and is it sitting on two economic winners that could turn the Northland economy around?

Opinion

Guest Editorial: Chances await for economy

A Far North marae has been transformed beyond recognition in Marae DIY's most ambitious makeover to date.

News

All hands on deck for marae facelift

The planned Hundertwasser Art Centre at Whangarei has moved from being a "fragile venture" scorned by many ratepayers to a predicted tourist magnet for which corporate and private benefactors have already stumped up $2 million.

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$2m donated towards arts centre

A Northland museum which was founded on the massive destruction of kauri forests is now a world leader when it comes to off-setting that deep carbon footprint.

News

Award for green initiative

The 1M is a flat-out M Car, ultra-tight chassis, stroppy powerplant and only comes with a manual gearbox, while its sibling gets a more forgiving platform.

Motoring

BMW M135i: Little Beemer's standard looks pack a surprise

Walking around Warsaw is like strolling through a living World War II museum.

Lifestyle

Travel: Warsaw, a city reborn

For a state less than half the size of the North Island, Tasmania punches well above its weight with its abundance of world-class attractions and knock-out scenery.

Lifestyle

Travel: Lovely Launceston

We can thank the Dutch for introducing cookies. Apparently, cooks used small amounts of batter on an oven tray to test the oven temperature before baking cakes. These crisp little test cakes were called "koekje".

Recipes

Sweet memorial to soldiers (+recipes)

Hard to keep to 100 km/h it may be, but the 2013 Mini Roadster wasn't the only fast car on the Pork Pie Charity Run from Kaitaia to Invercargill.

Motoring

Full helping on Pork Pie rally

Jack Morgan isn't one for pomp and ceremony.

News

Award surprise for dad, daughter

The news just gets better and better about the staging of charity fundraiser fashion shows at Whangarei Art Museum.

News

Museum charity role a hit

Dublin isn't cheap. But the flat, compact Irish capital is exceptionally walkable, with a wide range of free attractions easily reached on foot from any downtown hotel.

Lifestyle

Travel: Come home to Ireland

The Waitangi National Trust is coming under fire for fencing off the Treaty Grounds in a bid to stop overseas visitors getting in free.

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Waitangi fence raises hackles

Te Waimate Mission will hold one last hurrah for summer with a fete that will offer some of the best of local food, wine and entertainment and a great day out for people of all ages.

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Something for everyone at Te Waimate

The Whangarei Economic Development Group (WEDG) applauds the wide range of Northland business and community organisations that are working hard in the background to ensure the vision for the iconic Hundertwasser Centre in fact becomes a reality.

Business

Making centre a reality

Mark Neilson's farming ancestors have left their own form of historical document: names, initials, pictures and messages carved in two nikau palms on the family property at Longacre, near Wanganui.

Rural

Family trees tell tales

Five projects in the Mangawhai area will receive $55,104 from the Mangawhai Endowment Fund.

News

$55,000 for Mangawhai groups

Forty-five farmers from Idaho have been touring Northland, trying their hand at shearing, watching sheep dogs at work and learning which end of a cow to avoid in a milking shed.

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Idaho visitors get taste of Northland

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