In conventional styles of high jumping, as you’d expect, the body’s centre of gravity is heaved up and over the bar, with additional clearance to allow for the flesh surrounding it. Photo / 123rf...

Whau Valley Dam from the air, its main bellmouth spillway showing in the water at right. Photo / WDC A 60-metre slip is threatening the Whangārei Whau Valley Dam’s emergency spillway. The hillside at...

Veon Smith, 48, had been missing since Sunday. Photo / NZ Police The body of Whangārei man Veon Smith who was missing for five days has been found in a popular downtown reserve. The...

A Northlander has won $23,739 in Lotto second division. Lotto winner A player from Northland has won almost $24,000 in Lotto second division on Saturday night. The ticket, sold on MyLotto in Northland, was...

A report on more analysis on the disparity between fuel prices in Whangārei and other towns is due in September. Photo / NZME Motorists in Whangārei won’t know until September why they are paying...

Stuff One person was shot at a property in Northland on Friday night. Police are investigating after a person was shot in Northland on Friday night. Armed police were called out to reports of...

Police are investigating reports of gunshots at a property in Northland last night. Officers were called to an address on Taemaro Road in the village Hihi at around 9.30am. One person received moderate injuries....

The Robinson R44 helicopter’s engine lost power and plunged into a golf course fairway at Terrace Downs Resort where the bride and groom had earlier exchanged their wedding vows. Photo / George Heard A...

The speed cameras are part of a next generation of technology. File photo. Photo: RNZ / Alexander Robertson The first of the country’s ‘smart’ cameras to spot driving offences is going in on a...

The release of the juvenile grey-headed mollymawk was delayed due to bad weather, and then poor health, says Robert Webb (pictured). Photo / Tania Whyte Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air A...