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...