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.

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.

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.