Get your pukapuka (book) at Urupukapuka A pop-up library for holiday makers on Urupukapuka in the Bay of Islands is making a welcome return this summer. The mini library will operate out of the Department of Conservation's Otehei Bay Visitors Centre providing free books to campers and other visitors to Urupukapuka Island.
Library fines scrapped for children and teens Far North children and teens no longer need to worry about fines for holding onto library books beyond the due date. From 1 July, overdue fines for child and young adult library card holders are being scrapped.
Celebrating community achievements By Mayor John CarterLast Friday, hundreds of Northland residents converged on Kawakawa to witness Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern officially open the town’s new cultural and community hub. Te Hononga, or ‘the joining together of people’, pays homage to Austrian artist and architect, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who lived in the area from 1975.