Flooding around Ngunguru Road, east of Whangārei in January this year. Photo: RNZ / Susan Edmunds Whangārei District Council is advising anyone who doesn’t feel safe ahead of more heavy rain in the region...

A big swell pounds the Paihia shoreline during a previous storm. Photo: Peter de Graaf Business owners around Northland’s east coast are hunkering down for what promises to be a wet and wild few...

Mangawhai Harbour Restoration Society chair Peter Wethey. Photo: Local Democracy Reporting / Susan Botting A Mangawhai community leader is warning of the risk of another major sandspit breach within 15 years. Mangawhai Harbour Restoration...

The 25-foot vessel ‘JAGMEN’. Photo: Supplied Police are appealing for sightings of a boat last seen in Taurikura Bay on Sunday night. The 25-foot vessel – named ‘JAGMEN’ – was last seen leaving the...

Climate change, increasing costs, fussier consumers and changing rules have researchers and breeders working hard to develop a sheep that will not only be economic to farm but good for the planet. Country Life...

Whangārei’s Brian Cox (left) and Greg Waite protesting outside the library’s shut front doors on the first day of its Sunday closures, the scaffolding behind them for maintenance of the building’s skylight. Photo: Susan...

Dogs at the SPCA’s Mangere centre in Auckland. Photo: RNZ/Kim Baker Wilson Hundreds of thousands of dollars are being directed by the government to try to curb rife uncontrolled dog breeding in Auckland and...

Dogs at the SPCA’s Mangere centre in Auckland. Photo: RNZ/Kim Baker Wilson Hundreds of thousands of dollars are being directed by the government to try to curb rife uncontrolled dog breeding in Auckland and...

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi’s Northland Corridor, Warkworth to Te Hana tolling proposal. Photo: NZTA The NZ transport agency Waka Kotahi has started public consultation over a new road in Northland, and already some...

A Northland mudfish with a ruler for scale. Photo: DOC A deeply unglamorous and rarely seen creature that spends most of its life in mud has pulled off a last-minute upset by winning the...