A protester is removed from the Kaipara District Council meeting. Photo: NZME / Michael Craig Kaipara District Council has voted to disestablish its Māori ward, becoming the first council to do so under new...

A protest in Kaipara as Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua served the Kaipara District Council with an injunction to stop a planned vote on Maori wards. Photo: Kaipara District Council has voted to disestablish...

Photo: RNZ / Patrice Allen A house being moved has slid off a trailer, completely blocking a road in Northland. The incident occurred on Kaiwaka Mangawhai Road in Kaiwaka shortly before 9am on Wednesday,...

“She has affected me more than any other offender who has walked through our doors including the physical altercations I’ve had,” the Rebel store manager told the court during her sentencing on Friday. “You...

I mention this because the other day I discovered something about the woman I have worshipped since I looked into her amazing eyes at that social at the tennis club all those years ago...

“There are 130 rateable properties in our area now, and they want to smash a highway through it. “I don’t want it coming through my backyard or the other 130 rateable properties … there...

In response, Jepson said he would not resign over his Māori ward push. “I don’t think people should divided by race,” Jepson said. He had been elected by a large majority on a plank...

Northport had applied for a raft of resource consents related to a major expansion. Photo: Supplied Northland’s port company is appealing a decision to refuse consent for a major expansion, saying the commissioners made...

Ngātiwai chairperson Aperahama Edwards says Kaipara District Council has bigger problems to be worrying about than prioritising a decision on Māori wards. Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly Northland iwi Ngātiwai have called their people...

Kaipara Harbour as seen from nearby Shelly Beach. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf An ambitious project to clean up New Zealand’s biggest harbour is just weeks away from cracking the milestone of planting...