Minister for Local Government Simon Watts said he was seeking urgent advice on dangerous dogs. Photo: 123RF The SPCA is calling for an overhaul of dog control laws and for the government to reinstate...

Police at the scene of the fatal attack. Photo: RNZ Animal control officers visited the property where Mihiata Te Rore was mauled to death four times, including the day before the attack. Te Rore,...

Police at the scene of the fatal attack. Photo: RNZ The dogs that killed a woman in Northland yesterday came onto a neighbour’s property recently and pack attacked their dog. The Kaihu local says...

Photo: RNZ Police have identified Mihiata Te Rore as the woman killed by dogs north of Dargaville yesterday. The 62-year-old was killed while on a Kaihu property just before midday. Detective Senior Sergeant Shane...

A dog runs free in Kaihu, Northland. Photo: RNZ Hefty jail terms should be considered for owners of dangerous, roaming dogs, Northland local and cabinet minister Shane Jones says. His comments come after a...

The scene of a fatal dog attack in Kaihu, Northland. Photo: RNZ The small Northland settlement where a woman was mauled to death by a pack of dogs is devastated, a councillor and kaumātua...

Photo: St John One person has died after being thrown from a vehicle in a late-night crash west of Whangārei. Emergency services were called to a single-vehicle crash on Knight Road in Ruatangata West...

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown in his central city office. File photo. Photo: Supplied / NZME via Local Democracy Reporting Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown has fired a shot over the bow of Kaipara’s proposal to...

Maitai Bay, on the Karikari Peninsula, is a popular Far North holiday spot. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf Life is returning to a Far North bay once compared to an underwater desert, eight...

Students cut off from their high schools by a monster slip northeast of Whangārei are instead taking lessons at a temporary ‘education hub’ set up at a local primary school. Photo: Supplied / Ngātiwai...