Kāeo’s water treatment plant draws from the Waikara Stream. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf In a new twist to the long-running Kāeo water saga, it has emerged the operator of the troubled water...
NorthTec has campuses in Whangārei, Auckland, Kaitāia, Kerikeri and Ngāwhā, near Kaikohe (pictured). Photo: Peter de Graaf Northland MP Grant McCallum says the government has “no intention whatsoever” of closing down the region’s polytechnic...
Work gets underway in 2020 on a pipeline bringing bore water to Kaitāia’s water treatment plant. Photo: Peter de Graaf A report on a Kaitāia water project that took 14 years instead of five...
Vigilant camera operators have helped Kaitaia Police put a stop to a burglary at a local retail store late last night. Instead, three men have appeared in court. Camera operators based in Kaitaia alerted...
Turner Centre general manager Gerry Paul. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf Twenty years ago a dream of building a world-class performing arts centre became reality in a small Far North town. But how...
By Shannon Pitman, Open Justice reporter of Zayne Gordon attempted to set the Kaikohe Police station on fire with a Molotov cocktail. Photo: Open Justice / NZME A man who tried to set fire...
Three motorbikes were seized in Northland. Photo: NZ Police / SUPPLIED An investigation into an aggravated robbery in Northland’s Whangārei has led to the arrest of a man and the seizure of multiple motorbikes....
A man with a gun entered Kensington Tavern about 10pm on 25 July and fired a shot into the ceiling before demanding money. Photo: Supplied A man accused of the gunpoint robbery of a...
Te Pūkenga only opened a new NorthTec campus at Ngāwhā, near Kaikohe, in 2023, but it’s now scaling back courses as part of a de-merger. Photo: Peter de Graaf Fears are growing for the...