The organiser of a hikoi which marched peacefully down Auckland's Queen Street today says the new foreshore and seabed legislation breaches the Treaty of Waitangi.

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.

Suspended Maori Party MP Hone Harawira spent today talking with constituents in his Tai Tokerau electorate following a disciplinary hearing in Wellington on Wednesday. Te Tai Tokerau electorate chair Lisa McNab told NZPA Mr Harawira had

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.

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.

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.