Motorists travelling through Horowhenua are facing a slow tip because of surface flooding this afternoon.

Revered Maori leader Sir Graham Latimer was farewelled by hundreds of mourners at a funeral in Northland yesterday.

The Sky Tower is glowing orange tonight until Sunday, in support of Kiwis doing the 40-hour famine to raise money for World Vision this weekend.

Alcohol, speed and an overloaded vehicle contributed to the severity of an accident that killed Brethren members near Dargaville on Monday.

Emergency Services have successfully rescued a horse trapped by dangerously rising floodwaters in the Otaki River.

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Two women have admitted methamphetamine charges after a police raid in which more than $20,000 cash was seized.

Northland's top roading cop is "horrified and astounded" after a driver was stopped allegedly doing 165km/h on a busy stretch of Northland state highway.

Emergency services have been called to the scene after a car crashed down a bank in Henderson.

A Whangarei steel company is thrilled at winning a Convention Centre steel contract, which has already started providing new jobs for Northlanders, with more on the way.

Napier MP Stuart Nash says he has lost confidence in the region's police district commander.

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing has launched an investigation into the deaths of three horses at Auckland's Ellerslie Racecourse on Monday.

The man who died after falling while climbing Mt Taranaki was a French national.

A new political party has formed and is vying for the older vote.

Freedom campers will face the wrath of a dedicated council contractor if they break the rules and park up on one of the Bay's most idyllic visitor spots, Bowentown's Anzac Bay.

There were four jumps races at Ellerslie. A horse was dead after all but one of them. It has sparked renewed calls for steeplechase racing to be banned.

The truck driver accused of ploughing his truck into a motorway overbridge, causing hours of gridlock in Auckland, was excused from appearing in court today.

Nazi concentration camp survivor Bob Narev has spent his life trying to warn people about the dangers of standing by and letting others be cruel.

Kiwi remembers the day his dying grandfather took him to see Muhammad Ali.

Two dramatic videos have been released showing how Northland's forests are collapsing due to chronic underfunding of the Department of Conservation and lack of pest control.

The two-year-old girl fatally shot in her South Auckland home was farewelled.

Eleven people have died on our roads up until midnight, the highest number of deaths for a Queen's Birthday weekend since 1989.

An autistic man has been locked in a tiny, isolated area of a mental health unit for five years despite top-level warnings his treatment breaches human rights.

Showers are on their way with a northeast flow spreading across the country from tomorrow.

Boy, 14, thrown onto car bonnet, before hitting the road.

A man with Parkinson's disease who went missing in the Glenn Innes area has been found and is safe.