By Peter de Graaf of Firefighters responded from Kaikohe, Ōkaihau and Kawakawa after the alarm was raised about 3.30am on Saturday (file image). Photo: RNZ / Richard Tindiller A fire that destroyed a family’s...

GOOGLE MAPS/Supplied The crash happened on State Highway 1, about 1km south of Okaihau, Northland. A woman who drove drunk after a party may have survived crashing her car if she’d been wearing a...

Transport Minister Michael Wood. Photo: RNZ The new highway being built between Whangaparaoa Peninsula and State Highway 1 north of Auckland will be a toll road. The O Mahurangi Penlink project is due to...

There are severe weather warnings for Coromandel Peninsula, Bay of Plenty and parts of the South Island. SH1 north of Auckland at Dome Valley is only open to northbound traffic after a large slip...

Northland Regional Council staff taking part in an exercise on a fictional oil spill from a commercial fishing vessel running aground on a rock in the Tūtūkākā Harbour last week. Oil spill exercise Two...

Heavy rain and strong winds are battering parts of the country. Photo: Supplied / MetService Severe weather warnings remain as heavy rain and strong winds batter the country. It comes as parts of Aotearoa...

National will deliver more nurses and midwives, the party’s health spokesman Dr Shane Reti says. Photo / 123r National will deliver more nurses and midwives New Zealand’s health system is in crisis, with a...

There are severe weather warnings for the upper North Island until early on Tuesday. Northland, Coromandel and Bay of Plenty can expect heavy rain with an orange warning in place, and strong winds that...