Quite remarkable that Northland's Emergency Service Trust (NEST) has been operating for 25 years.

We give our MPs pay rises, no matter how well or poorly they perform, and they are appraised every three years through the election process

It's been a long week and to be honest, I am worried of making a complete hash of this, writes Craig Cooper.

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.

I suspect Friedrich Hundertwasser is having a good old laugh at the drawn-out process that the Hundertwasser Art Centre proposal for Whangarei has become.