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...

Hayden was last seen at her Tikipunga home on Sunday night. Photo: Police / Supplied A 14-year-old girl reported missing in Whangārei has been found. Hayden was last seen at her Tikipunga home on...

(File image). Photo: UnSplash/ Stephen Andrews The health watchdog has found a radiologist’s poor reporting of a CT scan may have delayed a bowel cancer diagnosis for a woman who died four months later....

Hayden was last seen at her Tikipunga home on Sunday night. Photo: Police / Supplied A 14-year-old girl reported missing in Whangārei has been found. Hayden was last seen at her Tikipunga home on...

(File image). Photo: Supplied Maritime New Zealand’s Rescue Coordination Centre and the Coastguard are conducting a flare training exercise in the Whangārei Harbour on Tuesday night. Residents in the Snake Bank area should expect...

Joanna Sione-Lauaki’s body was found on isolated Ripiro Beach, which stretches more than 100km from Maunganui Bluff to Pouto Point. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf Police are still hoping someone will shed light...

Because that was the street for her, a quilt of memories she walked through on her way to and from the shops, a palimpsest of yesterdays, which she could dial up at will, recalling,...