When Kawakawa's most famous work of art was unveiled in 1999, hundreds of people urinated on it.

Elisabeth Easther discovers a gem of a town in Northland where the train runs down the middle of the main street.

Danielle Wright takes her family on a vintage steam train along the main street of a tiny town with a big reputation.

Kawakawa residents say they have had enough of youths dragging their town down by burgling businesses and abusing tourists.

The tenure of a controversial Bay of Islands college principal has ended but the nature of his departure remains a mystery.

A taxi driver had to jump behind the wheel of an ambulance and drive it to hospital because the sole paramedic was working to save the life of a heart attack victim in the back.

Essential to every traveller, the convenience is now an artform in some enterprising towns.

The impacts of the global financial crisis hit are ingrained in our communities.

Police are searching for a second man who is presumed drowned after a floundering expedition went tragically wrong.

Most travellers in the north know Kawakawa as the town with the railway running down the middle of the main street.

More than 50 people have been arrested in two separate large-scale drug operations targeting cannabis in Northland and Hawke's Bay.