The Crown says a group of Northland children were assaulted and neglected by their drug-using parents, who often left them to fend for themselves, including looking after a baby. Photo / NZME Nine children...

Hannah Collins (as Belle) and Luca Bocock (as the Beast) star in the upcoming Stage Door production of Beauty and the Beast. Photo / Claire Gordon After an almost-two-year hiatus, Kerikeri’s Stage Door theatre...

Spilled coffee tarnished Kevin Page’s day, but it wouldn’t be the once. Photo / 123rf As I’m sure I have mentioned previously I’m rather partial to the odd cup of coffee. But after today...

The Whangārei Liquor Centre on Maunu Rd has been robbed multiple times. Photo / Angela Woods A handful of youths carrying a hammer and an axe robbed the Whangārei Liquor Centre on Sunday night....

Two wards at Whangārei Hospital remain closed to visitors, due to the spread of Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses like the flu. Ward 14, a medical ward, and ward 15, a rehabilitation and stroke...

Kerikeri 18-year-old Sky Gundry won the trade fair for the second year in a row with Sky’s Surf School, which aims to give young women confidence in the water. Photo / Peter de Graaf...

A new partnership through telehealth between iwi and Māori health providers aims to deliver more equitable outcomes for whānau in Te Arawa, Heretaunga and Ngāpuhi. Te Hau Ora o Ngāpuhi, Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga,...

Far North resident Annie Hackett is thrilled to have completed the Mongol Derby, touted as the “longest, toughest horse race in the world”. Photo / Supplied The chafing on Annie Hackett’s legs is nearly...

Outgoing three-term Whangārei Mayor Sheryl Mai, here when she was first sworn in in 2013, is urging people to get out and vote in October’s local body elections. From the Mayor’s Desk: Now nominations...