Police will have to continue to ping impaired drivers with the current tests after roadside saliva tests were canned. Photo / NZME Northland road safety advocates have been left frustrated and disheartened by news...

Simon Maude/Stuff The Whāngarei High and District Court is on Bank St. A person has been seriously injured in an incident at the Whangārei courthouse. Police said they had taken a person into custody...

An artist’s impression of the completed seawall at Ōmāpere in South Hokianga. Photo / FNDC Work has started on a 120-metre-long seawall designed to stop erosion claiming any more land at Ōmāpere in South...

The Whangārei courthouse. Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon A person has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after disorder in the Whangārei courthouse. RNZ understands the person is a family lawyer and they...

Switzer Residential Care, on South Rd in Kaitaia, currently has 98 elderly residents — 55 of whom are suddenly without a GP. Photo / Supplied The Far North’s GP crisis is deepening with Kaitaia’s...

Kathryn George/Stuff A man has died in hospital after getting trapped underneath a tractor. (File photo) A man has died after being trapped underneath a tractor in the Far North on Tuesday. Fire and...

Emergency department nurses issued a formal health and safety complaint to the hospital in September over staff shortages. Photo / Tania Whyte Medical staff from across the country are likely to be sent to...

An incident where Kaitaia College students were served raw chicken for lunch was not the first of its kind, a student says. Some students had to be hospitalised after eating the chicken and becoming...

Shane Reti thinks emergency department wait time data hasn’t been checked. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone National and a nursing union boss are questioning the accuracy of official health figures about emergency department (ED)...

Thousands packed Mangōnui’s main street for the ninth Waterfront Festival in 2020 — but the 10th-anniversary event has been a long time coming. Photo / Peter de Graaf Organisers of Mangōnui’s Waterfront Festival are...