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• Far North's first parking strategy: More paid parking, multi-level carparks?

  Paid parking and tighter parking controls could eventually become more common in Kerikeri, Paihia and other towns.

• Northland news in brief: Kemp House fundraiser seeks $50,000 for renovations in Kerikeri

  Kemp fundraiser

• Native Bird Recovery Centre sets new bird drop-off rules amid bird flu risk

  Whangārei's Native Bird Recovery Centre has new bird drop-off protocols as it prepares for the potential arrival of "bird flu" in Northland.

• Biosecurity success stays invisible, but failure could cost us – Jack Craw

  The biosecurity function at Northland Regional Council (NRC) is our single largest operational area, both in expenditure and staff numbers.

• Toiere: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa attends Kerikeri opera performance

  The stars turned out for NZ Opera's acclaimed production Toiere over two performances in Kerikeri, with a Kiwi opera legend among the audience.

• Humanoid robots are impressive, funny and deeply unsettling — Joe Bennett

  You had to be impressed by the World Humanoid Robot Games, though the word 'World' was a stretch. The games were held in Beijing and pretty well all the robots were Chinese-made. They did remarkable things.

• Whangārei dad Jacob Davey takes son on late wife Daisy's bucket-list adventure

  After losing his wife, Whangārei dad Jacob Davey embarked on an adventure with his young son to fulfil the bucket list she left behind.

• Cottage for sale links an Italian farmer and Ireland's high kings

  A modest cottage for sale on a small lifestyle block near Mangawhai in Northland links two 19th century immigrants to New Zealand, both born into cultures riddled with myths and legends.

• Nepal floods: Whangārei Nepali man fears for missing

  A Nepali man who has lived in New Zealand for more than two decades fears the likelihood of finding survivors grows weaker by the day as crews search for thousands missing.

• Northland news in brief: Korimako Trio brings four classical works to Turner Centre

  Aroha Music society will host the brilliant Korimako Trio - violinist Helene Pohl, cellist Rolf Gjelsten and pianist Michael Edres - this month at the Turner Centre in Kerikeri. The trio will play one of Haydn's finest piano trios, Aaron Copland's dark and dramatic Vitebsk, Schubert's Notturno and Brahms' masterful second piano trio on September 20.

Featured documents

• The great Lakes debate

  The decision to stop putting trout into Northland’s Kai Iwi Lakes has got fishers riled, but the guardians of the lakes say returning them to their natural state, and protecting native species, is the ultimate aim....

• Unsecured creditors owed $3.5 million by an Auckland property developer are being asked to accept 15 cents in the dollar or see the company go bust and get nothing.

  Unsecured creditors owed $3.5 million by an Auckland property developer are being asked to accept 15 cents in the dollar or see the company go bust and get nothing....

• Vape firm up in smoke with nearly $2m losses

  A business which imported disposable electronic e-cigarettes in six different flavours has gone up in smoke with an estimated $1.9million loss....

• New measures to protect native biodiversity

  Stronger protection for threatened biodiversity has taken a step forward as Associate Environment Minister James Shaw launched the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity — two years after thousands of people expressed their anger at a hīkoi in Kaikohe....

• Facial recognition cameras urged for Whangārei city centre

  A Whangārei district councillor is calling for facial recognition cameras to be introduced in the city centre, arguing that the technology could help prevent crime....

• Court of Appeal reserves decision

  Murder accused Samuel Hamuera Pou’s three-week jury trial should have been aborted on the seventh day when the jury foreperson signalled a verdict was already reached, the Court of Appeal has been told....

• OPINION NZ lagging on right to disconnect from work

  Anew law giving Australian workers the “right to disconnect” — to refuse contact from employers outside their working hours (unless that refusal is unreasonable) — comes into effect this month....

• Northlander wins rehearing in the Māori Land Court

  The Māori Appellate Court has allowed a Northland man’s appeal against an earlier decision of the Māori Land Court, saying the earlier decision was a breach of natural justice and resulted in prejudice....

• Bargain hunters flock in for sales

  While a Whangārei store owner thinks this year’s Boxing Day bonanza might not have outstripped previous years, shops still bustled yesterday with bargain hunters....

• Northland champions named on honours list

  Companion of the King’s Service...