Chase the sun north to a proud town where Elisabeth Easther finds a warm welcome and a fascinating history.

It took just 15 minutes for Ian McDonald's sore shoulder to turn into pain so excruciating it felt like a knife cutting into his spine.

A Northland teacher convicted of sexually abusing two girls and physically abusing six children placed in his care by Child Youth and Family has had an appeal against his conviction dismissed.

Clear sunny days will brighten the weekend, but once the sun sets, prepare for chilly nights, MetService says.

A Northland man accused of murder after a fatal fight can now be named.

Two flood-damaged police cars were written off in one year, with more than $71,991 being spent on repairing vehicles in the Northland police fleet.

Most people don't renew their wedding vows within the first year of marriage - but most people don't suffer a life-threatening medical emergency at the altar.

The National Party's support has remained steady despite its defeat in the Northland by-election, a new poll shows.

Transport Minister admits he asked his officials for information on Northland's one-way bridges during the Northland byelection but denies he breached Cabinet rules by doing so.

The children of a Northland man who died after a fight were believed to have seen the incident and driven him to the nearest house.

Winston Peters sounds genuinely interested in a request from subtribes of Ngapuhi to intercede in the dispute that is standing in the way of a Treaty settlement the Northland region needs.

Concerns are held for the safety of a three-year-old boy taken by his father after a violent family incident in Whangarei today.

Is everything I have ever done and will ever do in my life ultimately less significant than Winston Peters winning a by-election in Northland?

The 14-year-old teenage boy who died following a quad bike accident has been named by police.

Newly-elected Northland MP Winston Peters has been called on to resolve a dispute that has held up a Treaty settlement for the country's largest iwi.

Less than 25h after a stunning victory, Winston Peters was up to his old petulant antics in a way that made the Aussie cricketers look like models of good sportsmanship, writes Paul Little.

Winston Peters' triumph in the Northland byelection signals the most serious challenge he has mounted to National in two decades, writes John Armstrong.

Prime Minister John Key has admitted he underestimated Winston Peters' potential to win the Northland seat at the weekend's byelection.

Police are working to piece together events that lead to the death of a man who came off his motorcycle north of Whanagrei this morning.

Prime Minister John Key does not believe Winston Peters will be any more willing to work with National now he is the Northland MP.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has confirmed he will resign as a list MP, which will allow his party member to gain a new MP.

The Prime Minister would have been glad to be in Melbourne at the weekend. The World Cup final was bound to be more fun, whatever happened, than the result of the Northland byelection.

Prime Minister John Key says losing Northland in yesterday's byelection was disappointing but he was "pretty philosophical" about it.

Winston Peters' victory is an astonishing achievement. He cleaned out National. He cleaned out Labour, writes Rodney Hide.

It surely does not get much better than this for Winston Peters, writes John Armstrong.

NZ First leader Winston Peters has delivered National a humiliating bloodied nose in the Northland byelection, with a majority of 4,012 votes after the counting.

What a madcap couple of months. The Northland byelection campaign has had all the infantile pranking, ill-discipline and personal baggage of an Auckland airport carousel at Maadi Cup time. Here, from....

Prime Minister John Key is relying on National voters flocking to the polls and Labour voters staying home to win the Northland byelection.