Photo: 123RF Four teenagers have been injured after crashing into a ditch while avoiding police in Northland. Police were alerted to reports of a stolen vehicle travelling on Puketona Road, outside of Paihia, around...

Enchanter skipper, Lance Goodhew, on trial in Whangārei on 6 May, 2024. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf A three-week-long trial sparked by a maritime tragedy that claimed five lives near North Cape has...

About 60 people, many of them connected to the Hokianga-based Palestine Solidarity Group, turned out to show their support for a Far North District Council call for a Gaza ceasefire. Photo: RNZ / Peter...

Kaumātua Matutaera Clendon, centre, with nephew John Clendon and partner Bronna Brown at Whare Otupoho, a tiny house built on a DOC reserve on Moturua Island. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf A Northland...

The redesigned caulerpa suction dredge in action in the Bay of Islands, with sand extraction trommels and a second barge for offloading one-tonne bags of caulerpa. Photo: Supplied / Rana Rewha Dredging of a...

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown. Photo: NZ Herald / Dean Purcell Auckland mayor Wayne Brown is pouring cold water on talk of his council’s rubbish going north to a proposed $730 million Kaipara waste-to-energy plant....

Northland Regional Council chairperson Geoff Crawford. Photo: LDR / Susan Botting Northland Regional Council chairperson Geoff Crawford is facing the axe next week after just over 170 days in the top job. If Crawford...

A helicopter has crashed at Uretiti Beach, injuring two. Photo: CreativeNature.nl Rudmer Zwerver/ 123rf Two people have been injured after a home-built helicopter crashed on the eastern coastline of Northland. Emergency services were alerted...

Photo: 123rf.com A Far North teen on electronic bail stole a car from a hospital car park and sped down the wrong side of State Highway 1, police say. Northland police had been trying...