Photo: Supplied / Reef Lodge Motel Investigators say a 2800ha fire that forced more than 30 Northland families out of their homes for days last year was accidental. The investigation report into the Kaimaumau...

Farmers clearing land of gorse and bamboo started a wildfire that tore through swathes of conservation land and burned for months, an investigation has found. Since it ignited on December 18, 2021, the fire...

Gerard Hindmarsh/Stuff The Giant Sand Dunes at Te Paki Stream are renown for sand boarding down. (File photo) A beach tour company is on trial after a tourist in its care was hit and...

Toa Henderson in action at Apiti last February. He won the Whangārei A and P Show’s open shearing title on Saturday. Photo / SSNZ The lure of another competition, a taste of victory and...

A person’s body was found at Urquharts Bay after a search involving police, Coastguard and Surf Life Saving. Photo / Getty Images A person has been found deceased by the rocks at Urquharts Bay,...

Northland Mayoral Forum: Far North Kahikā (Mayor) Moko Tepania (left), Whangārei Mayor Vince Cocurullo, Northland Regional Council chairwoman Tui Shortland and Kaipara Mayor Craig Jepson. Northland’s local government leaders are calling for more Government...

Donovan Group has been fined $220,000 after a worker lost part of a finger in an accident. Photo / Tania Whyte By Imran Ali Losing most of the strength in an arm during a...

Jess Olsen bravely shaved her 13-year-old dreadlocks for I am Hope on Friday, her husband, Zac, looks on proudly. Photo / Michael Cunningham Jess Olsen knows all too well the struggles that can come...

Kerikeri residents’ power bills are around 40 per cent higher than they are for a similar household in Auckland. Photo / File Soaring power bills are hitting Northlanders hard in the pocket among revelations...

Collecting mussel spat on Te Oneroa-a-Tōhe/Ninety Mile Beach is a regular event, with the spat going to most of the country’s mussel farms. It’s an industry worth $380 million a year. But most of...