JS050117NADWAI313.JPG: Reti Boynton of Kaitaia leads the anti-P hikoi to Waitangi after a five-day walk from Cape Reinga. PHOTO /

More needs to be done to help children and young people access help, counsellors say, following the deaths of two children.

The sudden deaths of two young girls in the past few weeks - in unrelated incidents - are being investigated.

Auckland and Northland are about to get much-needed rain with a line of thunderstorms off the coast of the North Island.

SUP221016NAGnina.JPGKaitaia 18-year-old Nina Griffiths has won The Hits People's Choice Award for 2016.PHOTO/SUPPLIED After a spate

The fire burning in Matai in the Far North is no longer a threat to people or their homes.

Five helicopters with monsoon buckets have been dispatched to the Far North in a bid to bring a large scrub fire under control.

Kaitaia-based Highway Patrol constable Darren Critchley thought his working day was over at four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon but it was only just beginning...

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

Flanker Michael Jones was a little old to be the son that his fellow All Black Mike Burgoyne never had but he'd formed such a strong

A man has died in a single car crash in Ahipara south east of Kaitaia.

JS141116NADQUAKE115.JPG A planned surf lesson for a group of international students at Sandy Bay went ahead yesterday after instructors

An epidemic of methamphetamine is ripping communities apart - but the fightback has begun.

A seriously injured person is trapped in an upside down people mover, the fire service says.

The unsafe use of vehicles on 90 Mile Beach, particularly at Ahipara, has long been a source of aggravation for many residents, especially

NO byline thanks A 57-year-old Peria woman suspected by the prosecution and defence of covering for her children was convicted on

A body found in a bush south-east of Kaitaia on Thursday has been confirmed as that of 48-year-old Waipapakauri man Kimble Moore

The body recovered yesterday from a rural area near Kaitaia has been confirmed as missing 48-year-old man Kimble Moore.

Marae, women's refuges and other social agencies have won funding to house 3000 homeless families and individuals a year in the latest

Northland has the highest rate of student transience in the country, with hundreds of pupils moving schools multiple times each year. Kaitaia

Fourteen months ago things were looking up for Takahue teenager Georgia Buckingham. She was back at home with her parents, Glenn

The Kaitaia teen with just weeks to live was "in tears" when she found out tonight that her final wish would be granted.

The male driver of a car wasn't hanging around after a spectacular crash.

A Kaitaia schoolgirl who has organised three community meetings about a spate of suspected youth suicides in the town says she is frustrated that adult agencies have not been more supportive.

Police have confirmed that five young males aged between 17 and 25 have died suddenly in Kaitaia in the past 12 weeks.

Kaitaia is a community in crisis, says a community leader, after a spate of suspected suicides in the Far North town.

A logging truck driver will go through "intensive training" before he returns to the road after a truck rollover in Northland, says

Ten-year-old Kaitaia boy Alexander Campbell-Lewis had his first haircut on Thursday, some years earlier than Samoan custom demands

Naomi Austen-Reid is proud to call Kaitaia home so, when she saw the Far North town getting a bad rap, she wanted people to focus

Police have hailed a woman who went shopping dressed as a superhero as a real-life hero.