Police use excavator at rural location where they believe missing woman is buried .

More water storage facilities in Northland in the pipeline.

Bridget Simmonds, then 42, was reported missing on March 6 last year.

Simmonds' mother just wants closure for the family.

Suspicious fire destroys rural community hall.

Union slams Carter Holt Harvey's plan to make more than two thirds of workers redundant.

Police consider disappearance of Bridget Simmonds is suspicious.

Power outage for Far North.

Comment: The man in the way of NZ First's ambitions to return as king, or queen, maker.

Krillan Koni Brown, 18, was killed at a house in the Far North town.

Neighbours felt 'something not right' before hearing of death.

Child is stranded about 10m by the side of a cliff.

There is snow down to 400m in places of the South Island, what's in store for the north?

Northland is considered the party's best chance to win an electorate seat.

"I would like to think we could reach out to those people and possibly help them."

Many parents are still at home and/or afraid to send their children back to centres.

Jacinda Ardern and Dr Ashley Bloomfield: Why they broke social distancing rules.

ERA finds man accused of damaging a power pole with a tractor was unjustifiably dismissed

Northland Orca sightings wanted as one could be entangled in cray pot line

Heavy rain warning for the top half of the country, with floods in the Coromandel.

"All I could see was just a whole lot of flames. The whole place was engulfed."

It's the first holiday weekend since New Zealand moved to alert level 2 - and we're off.

"They say we're not in the risk category but it's everywhere," says 37-year-old.

Four people arrested in police drug operation named in court.

Heavy rain, severe gales have the upper North Island in the firing line.