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Waka ama: Keeping it in the family
Waka ama is more than just the fun sport of outrigger canoeing, which fits in ideally with our Kiwi lifestyle and attracts paddlers of both sexes from age 7 to 70.
Waka ama is more than just the fun sport of outrigger canoeing, which fits in ideally with our Kiwi lifestyle and attracts paddlers of both sexes from age 7 to 70.
At least two children were in a Northland house shot at during an attempted murder on Christmas Eve, police say.
Three people have died on the roads so far this weekend in crashes near Wellsford, in the Far North and in west Auckland.
After two of her children developed rheumatic fever, Te Aroha Teriaki is warning parents to always err on the side of caution.
Maori land protesters have been removed from a Far North sailing club on a District Council reserve, with 10 arrested and departing in a police van.
Thousands of workers to protest proposed new laws in 28 towns from Kaitaia to Bluff today.
More than 40 of the 80 pilot whales stranded at Spirits Bay have died and the rest will have to be relocated by road because of rough weather conditions.
DOC staff are scrambling to get enough help to save up to 30 whales still stranded at Spirits Bay, north of Kaitaia. At least 43 have died.
Just nine of the 63 whales found stranded on a Northland beach on Friday have survived.
Eleven pilot whales have been successfully transported and refloated at Matai Bay after a mass stranding on Karikari Beach near Kaitaia yesterday.
The number of whales to have perished on Karikari beach has now reached 44 - but rescuers are trying to save 14 survivors.
Police have named a woman who was killed in a quad bike accident on a Northland farm on Monday.