Tangipo Ryder has to travel seven hours each way for a face-to-face consultation with her GP. Photo: Peter de Graaf/RNZ Kaitāia residents are being forced to drive as far as Auckland – and in...

When no doctors were available after hours, Dargaville Hospital was making use of telehealth service and transferring the sickest patients to Whangārei. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf Stressed-out nurses in Dargaville are going...

St John Ambulance depot in central Auckland Photo: RNZ / Simon Rogers Kawakawa’s St John Ambulance station has been closed due to the discovery of toxic mould. St John Northland operations manager Ben Lockie...

By Shannon Pitman of Whangārei High and District Court Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf The last of the offenders implicated in a multimillion-dollar methamphetamine empire involving an intricate web of players and allegiances...

Whangārei Hospital. Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon The mayor of Whangārei says the city is in desperate need of a new hospital after its emergency department was at more than 150 percent capacity on...

Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon An earlier version of this story included the incorrect information that being in Code Black meant the ED was unable to accept more patients. Whangārei Hospital’s emergency department hit...

Bay of Islands Hospital in Kawakawa won’t be able to admit new patients this weekend due to a shortage of doctors, but the ED will remain open. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf Doctors...

Photo: Supplied / Google Maps Bay of Islands Hospital will not be able to take any new admissions until Monday because of a shortage of doctors, according to hospital insiders. New patients will be...

The Northern Wairoa River, seen here flowing through Dargaville, is Northland’s longest river. Photo: Peter de Graaf/RNZ When Sam Erickson started hooking one sickly snapper after another he knew something was seriously wrong. Around...

Josie Kemp Baker and Pamela-Anne Simon outside of He Iwi Kōtahi Tātou Trust, Moerewa Photo: Justine Murray It was on a return trip from gathering kai from the beach that a family noticed a...