Thanks go to Hone

A battery-powered hoverboard has been blamed for a fire that damaged a child's bedroom at a house in Kaitaia on Sunday night. A Kaitaia

Police are investigating a fire that razed a two-storey building in Kaikohe and threatened to spread to nearby flats. When the Kaikohe

A woman in her early 20s drowned and two other young women were hauled from the surf in a dramatic beach rescue at remote Hukatere

Local bowling clubs came out in force to support the Hickey Triples at Cooper's Beach last month with organisers reporting the annual

Worksafe NZ clearly believes that many of us are suffering a degree of paranoia over the new Health and Safety at Work Act. It insists

Missionaries planted the gospel

Whatuwhiwhi man John McMahon is deeply unhappy that the Whatuwhiwhi Top 10 Holiday Park is providing paid camp sites on the Far North

The quick response of a lifeguard has been credited with potentially saving the life of a child, believed to be a 3-year-old girl.

A nationwide search has begun for the endangered native Forest Ringlet butterfly, so named for the distinctive target-like rings

There will always be food on the stove, things to do, help to be given, but most of all Kaitaia's new youth space is a place where

Two-year-old Zariah Windleborn was in the spotlight this time last year with her American bulldog Thor, winner of the 2015 Northland

Bon appetit

An Australian redback spider has been found in Northland - the first confirmed finding in the area in more than 25 years.

One of New Zealand's youngest asbestos cancer sufferers, Deanna Trevarthen, died in Auckland on Monday, surrounded by family and in

A major power cut that has closed schools and business across the Far North may be sabotage.

Plans to build a $300 million pulp mill near Kaikohe - bringing hundreds of millions of dollars and an estimated 200 jobs - have been

A kitten stuck down a drain sparked a major rescue operation in Kerikeri yesterday involving the SPCA, a plumber, council contractors

Four local athletes stood out for the Kaitaia-based Far North Flash Junior team at the Iron Maori Rangatahi in Napier on Saturday. They

'History is (was) bunk,' according to Henry Ford. That's a view that some in Kaitaia believe is shared by the St Saviour's Anglican

Vandalism of an ancient tree

Louise Bailey is not a cyclist. She hasn't owned a bike since she was 12, but on Saturday she set off from Cape Reinga on the biggest

The removal of branches and ring-barking of what remains of a hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) outside the vicarage at St Saviour's

An American behind the wheel of a campervan found himself on the wrong side of the law and the wrong side of the road after narrowly missing an officer on the roadside.

Haami Hita and Joe Pol aren't short on talent, or confidence that they will make a name for themselves with Norty North Movement in

A motorcyclist has collided with a van in the suburb of Otangarei in Whangarei.

One of Northland's most important pa sites has been revealed for the first time in more than a century. Vegetation removal at Kerikeri

A woman has died at Taipa Beach in the Far North tonight.

The Bay of Islands will be one of four main sites around the country in large-scale commemorations marking 250 years since Captain

Teenager Hautafataha Livai was feeding the pigs out the back of his family's Far North dairy when he saw two masked heads pop up from the long grass.