A commercial fisherman who didn’t report catching 2.5 tonnes of snapper, kahawai and gurnard has been fined $26,500. Hamish Robert Apatu, 54, was sentenced on Monday in the Kaitāia District Court on three charges...

By Shannon Pitman, Open Justice multimedia journalist, Whangārei of Early childhood education teacher Sonya Costello has had her teacher’s registration cancelled. Photo: NZ Herald / Michael Cunningham An early childhood centre manager who roughly...

Former MP Shane Jones and Whangārei MP Dr Emily Henderson share their views on crime and justice. The fatal stabbing of a young man outside the doors of Whangārei’s Gull petrol station has sparked...

The man who was fatally stabbed at a Whangārei service station was protecting a woman before he was killed, his cousin says. The 25-year-old was sitting in his parked car on Saturday night when...

Photo: 123RF The victim of a Whangārei homicide has been named, as police warn about speculation on social media over the case. Shayden Perkinson, 25, of the Whangārei suburb Raumanga was killed on Saturday....

By the time Mrs P and I climbed between the sheets absolutely knackered, it was somewhere around 4am. Photo / 123rf OPINION I was thinking the other day how my written contributions have changed...

Shayden Perkinson, the 25-year-old killed while protecting a woman at a Whangārei petrol station, was convicted of manslaughter in 2014. Perkinson admitted to the charge of manslaughter at the Whangārei High Court in 2016,...