A young male leopard seal lounged on a pontoon outside restaurants in Whangarei's Town Basin

Thousands of bees swarmed a central city cafe and decided a table was a great place for a new home. Get a close-up look at the buzz they created.

Spray drift may have wiped out many of the crops of organic gardeners Keith and Brenda Antony

Levonne Smith is a retired teacher who entered the awards for the first time.

Whangarei woman spreading christmas cheer one shoebox at a time.

Young boaties have taken part in a four-day student education programme run by Coastguard.

A blue slide, which was meant to become part of a new playground, was stolen from Glenbervie School, in Whangarei.

Sara Hamilton explains her garden at Totara Grove School

A vehicle involved in a head-on crash exploded into flames as it was being carted away on the back of a tow truck during a night time salvage.

Police at the cordon off Balmoral and Vinegar Hill Rds where they are believed to be negotiating with a man.

Workers and tankers on site at Refining NZ. / Hightail

Mother gives birth in the family car as they drive to the hospital

French friends walk a tightrope at Whangarei Falls

More than 1000 children in Northland had their eyes checked for free this week thanks to two separate foundations - One Sight and the Essilor Vision Foundation - going in to schools in the region.

The Labour leader is the subject of Newstalk's first leader's breakfast.

Therapy dog Kambi is in need of surgery

Protesters marched through central Whangarei opposed to the commerical extraction of water from Poroti Springs.

Blair Tuke, of America's Cup-winning Emirates Team NZ, visited a Kerikeri retirement home and three schools - including Kerikeri Primary - when he called in to his home town on Friday.

Residents in an area of Waipu are concerned a bypass will kill their community.

ACC has been ordered to restore weekly compensation to a Whangarei man.

A small sample showing four of the forty-plus bands performing at the 2017 Bay of Islands Jazz & Blues Festival - Austin Walkin' Cane (USA), Jam Sandwich (Kerikeri), Chihiro Yamazaki and Route 14 (Japan) and Electric Experience (Australia).

Bill Pomare remembers the King, Elvis Presley

The students swapped the classroom for the council chambers.

Rust Ave was closed and people evacuated after contractors struck a gas line.

Source: Northern Advocate