Olympic gold medal-winners Blair Tuke and Peter Burling will be honoured with a parade through Kerikeri's main street on Friday. The

A 22-metre long blue whale washed up on a private Far North beach has excited a marine mammal expert but also sparked a health warning as the giant sea creature decomposes.

Suspicious behaviour at a coastal holiday home has led to the discovery of a methamphetamine lab in Northland.

Police have arrested three young men following a number of burglaries in the Kerikeri region over the past couple of weeks.

The two people who died, Vernon Lawrence-Samuels and Ryan Wikaira, both 23, had been at rugby training before the accident.

Northland farmer who lost hundreds of thousands in income is offering a $50,000 reward for evidence that leads to a conviction.

The low immunisation rate of Northland teenagers could help a measles outbreak spread across the region, health officials fear.

A laundromat in Kerikeri has been damaged by fire today.

For a decade Garry and Cynthia Moran have seen first-hand the human carnage created by vicious dog attacks in their Northland street.

A 20-year-old man has drowned while swimming at the popular Charlies Rock waterhole in Kerikeri.

A man is in custody after a police armed offenders squad callout in which Kerikeri residents were evacuated from their homes.

Two people are seriously injured after their car crashed through a barrier and down a cliff in Kerikeri early this morning.

Rising Kiwi piano star Sylvia Jiang will soon be the toast of New York - but not before she wows Kerikeri.

A 15-year-old Northland boy died after succumbing to fatal injuries he sustained during an "absolute chance'' BMX accident, a coroner has found.

Danielle Wright takes her family to a Northland town so good they named it twice.

No one has yet been arrested for throwing bleach into a regional council worker's face in a vicious highway attack in the Far North in June.

A domestic violence victim whose partner took her phone so she couldn't call police managed to raise the alarm via Facebook instead.

An owner of a children's entertainment company says she is "extremely remorseful'' for the injury caused to three children when a bouncy slide blew away.

Elisabeth Easther finds a Far North town steeped in history.

A grandmother who pulled a young family from a crashed car moments before it burst into flames says she was "in the right place at the right time".

A Northland family have a quick-thinking passer-by to thank for saving their lives after a bizarre crash described by a policeman as the luckiest escape he has seen.

As Kerikeri solo dad Neil Arthur Phillips entered the dock for sentencing on dope dealing charges, his two teenage sons rushed over from the public gallery to give him a hug.

Police are investigating the possible theft of hundreds of historic photographs from a Far North museum.