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Mystery body found on Ninety Mile Beach
Police are asking for help to identify the badly decomposed body of a man found on Ninety Mile Beach in the far north on Sunday afternoon.
Cape Reinga: Beach bus boogie
Paul Rush takes a hair-raising ride in the Te Paki dunes on a nostalgic Cape Reinga tour
Iwi plan title claim on northern jewels
Ninety Mile Beach and Cape Reinga could be early targets for iwi pushing for customary title after the repeal of the Foreshore and Seabed Act.
Final few metres of SH1 sealed
The final stretch of State Highway 1 was sealed today, allowing drivers a tarsealed ride from one end of the country to the other for the first time.
Chips and a beer reward long row
After rowing nearly 4000km across the Tasman, all Shaun Quincey needed was some Kiwi tucker to make him feel good.
Tsunami gauges 'stabilising'
Wave activity "appears to be stabilised" at previously-reported levels, Civil Defence Emergency Management says.
Land of the Long White Cloud
In 2004's Kaikohe Demolition, German-born New Zealand-bred filmmaker Habicht got to know the stars of a dodgems-to-the-death demolition derby in the Northland town of the title and then filmed the hilarious showdown.
New name for Ninety Mile Beach possible under Treaty deal
Famous stretch of coastline in the Far North could be renamed under a tentative Treaty of Waitangi deal.
Son tells how father saved him before drowning
A grieving son whose father drowned after holding him above water has paid tribute to the loving family man.
Granddad dies saving kids from vicious rip
A notoriously dangerous stretch of Northland beach has claimed the life of an Auckland man trying to pull his grandchildren from a rip.
Four in court over Far North tourist assault
Fourth man hands himself in following arrest of three others on aggravated robbery charges.