Ten-year-old Ted Keen from Kerikeri was overwhelmingly voted the winner of Aotearoa’s Next Top Mullet. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf New Zealand’s newest national champion is a 10-year-old named Ted from Kerikeri. Ted...

The Northland Rescue Helicopter currently gets about 15 percent of its funding from the community via donations and a ratepayer levy. Photo: Peter de Graaf A proposal to ditch ratepayer funding for the Northland...

More than 300 cannabis plants were found during the operation. Photo: Supplied / Police Northland police have busted a large-scale indoor cannabis growing operation in central Whangārei. Detective Senior Sergeant Aaron Crawford, of the...

State Highway 1 through Whangārei, one of the sections which has been four-laned in recent years. Photo: RNZ Building a four-lane expressway from Auckland to Kaikohe could benefit the region by more than $500m...