Flood waters surround a Wairoa house days after Cyclone Gabrielle wreaked massive damage across many communities Photo: Nathan McKinnon Climate and health experts warn storms like Cyclone Gabrielle will have increasingly devastating public health...

The wreck of the Waitere, better known as the Blue Ferry, at Bay of Islands Boatyard in Ōpua. Photo / Peter de Graaf One of three organisations charged with investigating the sinking of a...

LIBBY WILSON/Stuff One person has died after a car crashed into a tree in Dargaville on Monday morning. One person has died after a car crashed into a tree in Dargaville on Monday morning....

Damage to the Blue Ferry after a collision with a motorboat. Photo: Supplied The wife of a ferry skipper hospitalised after a collision with a motorboat in the Bay of Islands says he is...

The Poor Knights Island Marine Reserve on Northland’s east coast is teeming with sea life, making it one of the best diving spots in the country, according to the Times of India. Northland’s diving...

Supplied Rawinia, 13, has been missing since April 6. Two Northland teenagers who have been missing for 11 days “may be together”, police say. Police named the teenagers as only Rawinia and Nape. The...

Police say they do not believe the incident is gang related. (File picture) Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver A 25-year-old man was seriously assaulted before he died from his injuries in Whangārei on Saturday...

Community advocates fear a looming recession will add to a growing list of the working poor in Northland and force families struggling in bigger cities, especially Auckland, to head north. Their fears follow a...

Peter Martin/Stuff Sonya Costello, an early childhood education teacher, has had her teacher’s registration cancelled. An early childhood centre manager has had her teacher’s registration cancelled for force-feeding toddlers, making racist remarks and rough...