A millionaire businessman who won a battle to keep his name secret was so addicted to cocaine he begged his dealer for a small amount to "keep him going".

Northland's amazing Lotto winning run has seen 28 major prizes won in the region in less than four months, including a $5.5 million

Two Northland men who collected excess and undersize scallops in the Bay of Islands then used a false retrospective customary permit

A Hawke's Bay dairy robber and two others were sent to jail yesterday for their roles in the knifepoint robbery of Napier's Westshore

A Northland school teacher has been censured after her conviction for driving with nearly five times the legal alcohol limit and getting

An Air New Zealand safety video showcasing the people and sights of Northland has been watched 2.2 million times in its first 24 hours

A Napier District Court jury gasped in apparent horror yesterday as they were told a brief history of a man they'd just taken barely 15 minutes to find guilty.

A Whangarei woman whose living room was burgled while her husband dozed on the couch says the crime shows how "brazen and opportunistic"

A store owner has described being held up by three masked robbers wielding a machete and a knife. Napier store owner Kirti Patel

A battery-powered hoverboard has been blamed for a fire that damaged a child's bedroom at a house in Kaitaia on Sunday night. A Kaitaia

Northland's canine crimefighters have been given an extra layer of protection against being stabbed or slashed while on the frontline. The

Police are investigating a fire that razed a two-storey building in Kaikohe and threatened to spread to nearby flats. When the Kaikohe

A noisy Che Fu gig may cost a hotel its liquor licence just before Christmas.

A woman in her early 20s drowned and two other young women were hauled from the surf in a dramatic beach rescue at remote Hukatere

Fishing companies pledge changes to help endangered Maui dolphins.

A little boy has been left chuffed by a random act of kindness from two police officers who donned their secret Santa hats for him. Four-year-old

More than 40,000 Gisborne residents have been asked to prepare for eight hours without power again this Sunday.

Thirty-seven businesses have been selected to receive financial help after the gastro crisis rocked the village in August. A council

The trial of a teenager charged with the manslaughter of 2-year-old Matiu Wereta in Flaxmere 14 months ago is expected to be held

Whatuwhiwhi man John McMahon is deeply unhappy that the Whatuwhiwhi Top 10 Holiday Park is providing paid camp sites on the Far North

Fireworks are believed to have sparked a blaze which ripped through scrub close to a Northland campground. At its peak about 25 people

The quick response of a lifeguard has been credited with potentially saving the life of a child, believed to be a 3-year-old girl.

The extent of Northland's illegal dumping issue is "coming out of the woodwork", with the discovery of another huge pile of trash

GNS Science says the probability of a big quake has increased following the Kaikoura earthquake.

Toast is on the menu for the Kaushish family's lunch, and there isn't a curry in sight. It's Monday afternoon, and the Bay of Plenty

A shop in Whangarei sold two winning Division One Lotto tickets of $166,667 in Saturday's draw as Northland's amazing run of Lotto

We may be 12 days into summer but the rain falling over the last week isn't going anywhere fast.

More wet weather is on the way this weekend.

Givealittle page raises over $10,000 in less than a day in support of family who lost a husband and father killed in the Kaipara Harbour boating accident.

The hunt is on for "a bloody idiot" who sabotaged the Far North, cutting power to more than 32,000 homes and businesses.