The Government is proposing changes to the rock lobster (crayfish) catch limits in Northland to protect the resource, after a High Court ruling that the Government was allowing too many crayfish to be caught...

Our summer road maintenance schedule has been interrupted before it could even get off the ground because of the weather. Photo / Tania Whyte OPINION Nga mihi o te Tau Hou, Buon Anno and...

Start of the salvage operation at the Tūtūkākā Marina after the tsunami surge. Photo / Michael Cunningham A year has passed since an eruption in Tonga drove a devastating tsunami surge through Tūtūkākā Marina...

Access to Ruapekapeka Pā near Kawakawa has improved with the sealing of the road. The road to one of New Zealand’s most significant battle sites has now been sealed, greatly improving access to Ruapekapeka...

The now-sacked skeleton crew at Dragonfly in Kerikeri, after rumours the shop was haunted. A second-hand shop owner’s quirky front-lawn plastic skeleton sculptures have been canned for fear high school students were avoiding the...

A Kerikeri resident is baffled by misdirected courier packages left in his letterbox. Photo / Peter de Graaf A Kerikeri man has been left mystified after finding his letterbox — and his neighbours’ —...

Campers battening down against wild weather at Bland Bay Campground in Northland, earlier this year. Photo: Supplied / Wayne Johnstone What was meant to be a grand return to business has become another nightmare...

Cees Romeyn, 80, will sail Nexus in the Bay of Islands Sailing Week for the 20th time later this month. Photo / Lissa Photography The event that legendary sailing commentator Peter Montgomery called “the...

At the entrance to Whangārei Harbour, a small, rocky island called The Frenchman has a mysterious concreted door. Denise Piper finds its history is not as clear as the waters surrounding it. At first...