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.

Mother of soldier says she wishes NZ troops were brought home before her son died in 2012.

Horsewoman puts on amazing display with wild colt to win $142,278 at show in America.

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.

Whangarei police increase patrols after three aggravated robberies in 15 days.

Youths as young as 11 helped themselves to beer from a liquor store.

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.

This week's storm chaos has seen unsettled silt at water treatment plants, sparking a city-wide call to save two buckets of water per person, per day.

A Northland group has lost its high court fight to stop the export of swamp kauri stumps in an almost raw state.