New Zealand courts dealt with more than 160,000 charges in 2021/22. Photo / 123rf A look at Northland’s most prolific offenders has led through the courtroom doors to where an underworld of sex, brutality,...

The scene in Kaitaia’s Knights The Jewellers store after a youth allegedly smashed a cabinet with a hammer and ran off with some watches on Thursday morning, prompting quick action from some locals to...

By Shannon Pitman of A person was taken to hospital with serious injuries after disorder in the Whangārei courthouse on 9 March. Photo: RNZ / Samantha Olley A man who assaulted a lawyer in...

Ian and Cindy Fox show off one of Northland’s newest tourist attractions, the Chandelier Chamber at Waipū Caves Farm Park. Photo / Michael Cunningham Just come on up, we’re open for business! That’s the...

Contractors at one of the seven slips blocking SH1 over the Brynderwyns are working to get the road open for both lanes in time for the Easter influx of traffic into Northland. There’s good...

Three children and a teacher were rushed by wandering dogs during a school camp in the Bay of Islands. Council animal control staff, with help from police, are investigating a complaint about wandering dogs...

Model Ashley Graham interviews Hugh Grant at the 95th Academy Awards in Hollywood. Photo / ABC OPINION “You have to see this Oscars interview,” said Don. “I don’t,” I said. “Everything about the Oscars...

Mt Manaia watches over the entrance to at-risk Whangārei Harbour, less than 100km from new invasive super spreader seaweed on Great Barrier Island. Photo / Tania Whyte Whangārei Harbour – and others along Northland’s...

Ammunition and a firearm seized by police executing Operation Cobalt search warrants. Photo / NZ Police Northland police have carried out fewer searches under the nationwide Operation Cobalt than police in any other district...