Rain is expected to ease across Northland after heavy rainfall caused surface flooding, power cuts and multiple school closures. MetService meteorologist David Miller said showers were expected today after yesterday’s downpour. “It’s not going...

Hospital visitors who refuse to wear masks or walk around wards visiting different patients are creating difficulties for Northland hospitals trying to manage Covid-19 infections. Dargaville Hospital’s general ward reopened to visitors on Tuesday,...

“People say they’ve been waiting for a place like this to open in Kaitaia,” says Peekaboo co-owner Stefanie Ruscigno. Photo / Ben Knight Five new Far North eateries may be the light at the...

Grant Allerby [front] won the Kerikeri Striders 24-hour event, running 116.5km from 8am Saturday to 8am Sunday in May. Photo / Supplied Kerikeri athlete Grant Allerby is no stranger to long-distance running, having run...

If New Zealand’s healthcare system issues predate the pandemic, where did it all go wrong? Photo / NZME Health crisis – it’s the term Andrew Little refuses to say and Shane Reti loves to....

Northland’s Rhonda Kite (left), Co. OfWomen founder Tara Lorigan, with the night’s other inductees Frances Valintine and Maxine Simmons. Photo / One-image Photography Māori television champion Rhonda Kite is one of three new additions...

A winning Lotto ticket was sold in Kaitaia. Lotto winnersA Lotto ticket sold in Kaitaia is worth a third of a million dollars, after two winners in Timaru and Auckland split Saturday Lotto’s $14...