The freshwater gold clam Photo: NIWA Northland Regional Council’s deputy chairperson is urging Kaipara District Council to reconsider its decision to keep Kai Iwi Lakes’ boat ramp open, as the threat of invasive freshwater...

St Paul’s Anglican Church priest Chris Williams with the returned candlestick, dedicated to his grandfather Percy Williams. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf It once was lost, but now it’s found. The parishioners of...

Northland Coastguard Air Patrol conducting the aerial search for a fisherman who was swept off the rocks at Tapotupotu Bay near Cape Reinga. Photo: Northland Coastguard Air Patrol The Police Dive Squad is searching...

A humpback whale breaches in Bream bay just 50 metres from Michele Adams’ boat. Photo: Supplied/Michele Adams Friends fishing in Northland’s Bream Bay were treated to a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle, when a huge humpback whale...

Peter looks at Hawaiian waka returns to Waitangi, 40 years after sparking a revival of Maori ocean voyaging. He’ll look at local shock over the violent death of businessman Monty Knight and there’s a...

The plane sank after an emergency landing off Cape Brett in the Bay of Islands. Photo: Peter de Graaf Efforts are about to get underway to locate and recover the wreckage of a plane...

Jason Paul Wharerau died while out fishing earlier in November. Photo: Facebook/Tāmaki Primary School The heartbroken whānau of an 11-year-old boy who died during a fishing trip in Northland has described him as clever,...

An early intervention programme for women who could have or could develop cervical cancer – identified by smear tests – has met bottlenecks as they progress to further testing. Photo: GARO / Phanie Surge...

Cape Reinga looking south to Tapotupotu and Spirits Bay. Photo: RNZ / Lois Williams The search for a fisherman who was swept off the rocks at Tapotupotu Bay near Cape Reinga has finished for...

Photo: RNZ / REECE BAKER Two people have been rescued after their plane landed in the water at the Bay of Islands this morning. The Civil Aviation Authority said the plane had landed on...