Kaipara elects a new council for the first time since commissioners were appointed in 2012 but the Crown has not withdrawn completely.

Winston Peters is calling for immigrant employers caught underpaying workers or forcing them to work long hours to be deported.

Changes undermine value of national bowel screening programme, expert says.

More preliminary elections results are trickling in from the regions this morning - Kaipara District has a new mayor and the Chatham Islands have re-elected its current mayor.

Almost 2000 foreign tourists have experienced the Bay of Islands as the cruise ship season kicked off this week.

Aucklanders are not only snapping up residential properties in Whangarei for investment but also commercial and industrial buildings

They're the organisation that's aiming to go out of business. But Whangarei's Tai Tokerau Emergency Housing Trust is busier than

MC051016NADSHOOTING1.JPG: A man was found dead in the driver's seat of a white-coloured Mitsubishi car parked on the side of William

The discovery of rare pateke - native brown teal ducks - in a part of Northland they are not normally found has excited conservationists. But

New Zealand's most expensive new residential lodge will open its doors to guests from the start of next month.

A loud crash outside the front door told Dargaville farmer Vern Suckling that something was going on outside his home. It turned

Emergency services are at a two-car crash in Northland this morning.

Two families have reached a custody agreement over the dog - named either Wilson or Bear depending who you asked.

Wild weather has caused streets and houses to flood in Auckland and Northland this afternoon.

by Kristin Edge Cash and cigarettes were taken in an armed robbery of a Northland petrol station this morning and police are urgently

A body found in a bush south-east of Kaitaia on Thursday has been confirmed as that of 48-year-old Waipapakauri man Kimble Moore

The future of Tuhoronuku's mandate to negotiate Treaty claims on behalf of Ngapuhi is still up in the air following the board's meeting on Friday which saw four board members resign.

By Kristin Edge A water safety official is urging people to take care when crossing rain-swollen creeks after a Northlander died

Flash flooding brought a deluge of pine plantation slash and logs down a Northland river devastating farm properties in its path.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has advised dairy farmers in Northland to sort out their employment and time records

A man has died after the vehicle he was travelling in flew off the road and hit a tree along State Highway 1 in Northland early this morning.

A man has died in Northland tonight after a car crashed into a creek.

Police have released security camera pictures from a terrifying armed robbery in Whangarei as they try to track down the offenders. The

One cow is dead after a car collided with loose cattle on a Northland road earlier tonight. A fire spokeswoman said the car involved

xxxxxxxxxxxxSUPEnviroschools.JPG / GROUND WORK: Kohukohu School teacher Kim Wilson (left) Hukerenui School student Kaia Stevens

Truckies were among members of the public who provided information on the movements of a man who allegedly broke into seven businesses

Police have recovered a body from a rural bush area 20 minutes east of Kaitaia which they believe has been there for some time.

Cadaver dogs are searching bush for a gang member missing since March.

A police car and a motorcycle shop have been smashed up in a dramatic ram raid and pursuit in Dargaville this morning.

Artwork has started springing up among Whangarei's election hoardings as two mayoral candidates try a different tack in their campaigning. Matt