Liz Light visits Ralph Hotere's final Hokianga home.

Minister says Housing NZ stock needs work before it can impose conditions on private landlords

Northland's tinder-dry conditions caused a quad bike fire to extend into a blaze which threatened homes and which took four fire crews and two helicopters to extinguish.

Before we lose daylight savings, a trip to the winterless north should be on your wishlist.

A Far North man has been found guilty of causing the death of one of his relatives.

Cate Foster takes a nostalgic drive through the hill country between Herekino and Hokianga.

Police arrested four members of one family after a motorbike was allegedly driven around a Kaikohe street in a dangerous manner.

Elisabeth Easther finds a Far North town steeped in history.

A stranger's speedy action saved the life of a toddler who slipped off the pontoon at Mangonui wharf and "sank like a stone".

Thieves stole dozens of boogie boards from a tour bus that got bogged down in sand on Ninety Mile Beach at the weekend.

If the Far North is on your list of places to go, here are a few suggestions to add a bit more excitement to your break, including dolphins, spirits and the deep blue sea.

The Northland Armed Offenders Squad has been stood down after being sent by helicopter from Whangarei to an incident in the Far North this morning.

Ratepayers are outraged over an outgoing chief executive's $240,000 severance payment from the debt-riddled Kaipara District Council.

A major methamphetamine drug bust has uncovered a rusty army ammunition tin crammed full of $100,000 in cash in a Far North paddock.

A routine traffic stop at Umawera, in the Far North, led to the discovery of a methamphetamine lab at Whangape, police say.

A Kaitaia evangelical church leader who secretly filmed a teenage girl and a woman has pleaded guilty to a raft of sex-related charges.

Editorial: It is hardly surprisingly that many state-house tenants in Glen Innes are angry about being asked to leave homes they have inhabited for years.