Police were called to the scene and seized guns after shots were fired at a vehicle in Houhora.

Police want information on the aggravated robbery of a pizza store in Whangarei last night, which left a worker with knife cuts.

An act of "absolute stupidity and dangerous driving" by a fleeing motorist put innocent lives at risk, Northland's top traffic officer says.

For a decade Garry and Cynthia Moran have seen first-hand the human carnage created by vicious dog attacks in their Northland street.

An American pitbull dog responsible for the attack on an elderly man and his dog in Kaikohe has been handed over to authorities and is likely to be destroyed.

Families who have struggled through the bureaucratic red tape to gain permission to use medicinal cannabis say the costs remain too high a hurdle for too many.

A Tribesman gang member wanted in connection with the disappearance of Far North man Kimble Taipo Moore has been arrested.

Ngapuhi elder Kingi Taurua has claimed responsibility for the Prime Minister's no-show at Waitangi Day commemorations in the Bay of Islands.

A Whangarei man has been jailed for blackmailing a 14-year-old girl into sending him naked pictures over Facebook.

Excluding Northport as a possible site for taking over some of Ports of Auckland's work doesn't make sense to Northland's economic development boss.

A Northland holiday park will be one of the first in New Zealand to banish smoking from its grounds.

The lawyer of a prominent Kiwi on sex charges says the trial has seen the accusers' lies unravel "spectacularly".

A Northland family believe a lack of funding for medicinal marijuana is preventing people from applying for permission to use the drug.

Firefighters had to lift a car off a man who was thrown halfway out of the driver's window and trapped under the vehicle when it crashed.

Emergency services are trying to make their way to the scene of a crash after two motorbikes collided in sand dunes in Northland.

The family of a patched Northland gang member who was last seen with a man wanted for kidnapping and violent robbery have concerns for his welfare.

Seen as the idyllic aquatic playground, the Northland region boasts unquestionable beauty. That so much, is a given.

The mosquitoes up there are as big as sparrows, they told me. They come in swarms so big they blot out the sky, they added ominously.

The Eagles Nest spills across 75 acres of a peninsula looking down on the Bay of Islands along the way to Tapeka Pt.

Julia gives the all clear and we drop over the side, following the white mooring line down to the comms tower on top of the bridge.

A US-based "sand artist" has transformed a Northland beach with the help of a local Maori artist.

Jim Eagles rekindles his love affair with the country's National Clock Museum.

Group flooded out at Waipu told 'this is not India' when they asked security officer for help.

The tragedy happened off the Ahipara Beach end of 90 Mile Beach about 4.40pm.