Heavy rain is expected across NZ this week in the wake of Cyclone Debbie

Northland principals may have to suspend high risk children if they don't get more funding

Police reassure shop owners and public they are actively trying to catch the offenders.

Two men plead guilty to attacking male and female overseas tourists at Ahipara.

Northland primary schools are threatening to permanently suspend troubled children.

A GoFundMe site has been created to buy a Northland island.

News snippets from around Northland

A Northland horsewoman will be bringing home the horse she tamed within 3 hours.

COMMENT: NZ First leader Winston Peters dug up an old bone to chew on.

Claims and counterclaims rife about China Rail's link to infrastructure projects in North.

A marae hit by floods eight times since 2003 is to be rebuilt out of reach of floodwaters

More jobs and safer trucks could be the outcome if research hub funding is approved.

Weather for Adele's concert tonight forecast to be worst of star's three Auckland dates.

Two years since Winston Peters won the north, can his reign continue?

Broadbill swordfish was so big it wouldn't all fit in the boat.

The 7.8 quake moved parts of the South Island more than 5 metres closer to the North.

Four liquor outlets in Northland have been caught selling booze to minors.

Refining NZ says it needs to deepen Whangarei Harbour's channel but iwi are not sure.

A warm, sunny week is expected across the North Island before the weather takes a turn for the worse on Friday.

A scrub fire has taken hold and is spreading, near Kawakawa in the Bay of Islands.

The weekend will be mainly fine across the country.

A key piece of National policy is hanging in the balance.

Corrections officers are being housed at a five-star waterfront hotel in the Far North while on secondment to cover the region's short staffed prison.

A strong February has seen Northland's house prices hit a record median.

A union is linking a linesman's injury to its call on Top Energy to halt its plan to lay off 17 workers.

A man at the centre of a large search and rescue operation was last seen on Saturday.

A group of Far North women are preparing to harvest their first crop of hemp later this month.

Whangarei MP Shane Reti was one of about four people who helped community worker Carol Peters when she collapsed at Opera in the Garden.

The power-packed storm meteorologists have dubbed the "Tasman Tempest" dumped more rain on Auckland than typically falls for the whole of March.

An incredible 130mm of rain has fallen in the Coromandel Ranges in the past 24 hours.