Ngātiwai Trust Board chairman, Aperahama Kerepeti-Edwards, has raised concerns with health and government officials over the number of testing centres available. “They [people turning up for tests] are sitting in their cars in near-30 degree heat, getting hot, thirsty and distressed.
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Large queues have formed at the Marsden Point testing station. “We are calling on the government and the Northland District Health Board to move urgently and provide more resource into testing.” Two additional pop-up testing centres have been opened in Helensville and Mangawhai and opening hours at all existing testing centres in Northland and Auckland have been extended.
Covid 19: Anxious wait for region as as locations woman visited revealed
24 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Bendon Outlet in Whangārei was among 30 places the woman who tested positive for Covid visited.
Photo / Adam Pearse
Bendon Outlet in Whangārei was among 30 places the woman who tested positive for Covid visited.
Photo / Adam Pearse
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Northlanders becoming blase about using the Covid tracer app have had a wake-up call after a woman from the region tested positive after twice returning negative results at a quarantine facility.
The woman, 56, lives just south of Whangārei and travelled with her husband in the southern parts of Northland, to about 30 places around Mangawhai, Dargaville and Helensville, and became symptomatic on January 15.
Northland dog owners spoiled for choice for canine companions
22 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Tukairangi Maxwell and his dog Kuri at the popular William Fraser Memorial Park in Whangārei. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Jenny Ling is the Northern Advocate s feature writer and news reporterjenny.ling@nzme.co.nznorthernadvocat
Northland has a higher-than-average dog population compared to the rest of the country. Reporter Jenny Ling finds out what s on offer for our four-legged friends. Northland is home to a high proportion of dog owners who cherish their relationships with man s best friend.
Many of our fur-kids are domestic pooches, while others are an array of hunting, farm and therapy dogs.
Northland news in brief: Arson accused to apply for bail; and educational food hui
22 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Firefighters from Kawakawa and Kerikeri managed to save a shed at the isolated Ngawhitu Rd property, west of Moerewa, but had no chance of saving the house. Photo / Peter de Graaf
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Arson hearing
A Northland man accused of burning down a house near Moerewa is expected to apply for bail when he next appears in the Kaikohe District Court. William Bradley Pashley, 50, was charged with arson shortly after a home on Ngawhitu Rd, off Ngapipito Rd, burned to the ground on the night of January 17. He was remanded in custody after his first court appearance on January 19 and is due back on January 26 by audio-visual link. The home was owned by a woman living at the address. It is understood at least one child lived there as well. At the time it was the sixth serious house fire in the Far North in less than six weeks, and all but two were in the Kawa
A disgruntled cyclist wants Whangārei District Council to better identify hazards after crashing into an unmarked chain across his Pohe Island route.
Michael Jones was injured after riding into a camouflaged security chain across a track.
Photo: LDR / Susan Botting
The council has taken action to increase safety of the chain, and says it is on a rally road with no signage encouraging it to be used as a cycleway.
Michael Jones suffered a bruised eye, grazes to his face and hands, and a sprained wrist after crashing into the security chain across the track he was riding along and falling off his electric bike.