Food, donations and offers of help are pouring in to support the family of a boy killed after a hole he was digging in the sand collapsed and suffocated him.

A day at the beach has turned to tragedy for the family of a seven-year-old boy who has died after a hole he was digging collapsed on him at a Northland beach.

Catherine Smith spends a refreshing weekend walking the coastal routes around Langs Beach.

Paul Charman has mixed feelings about the ancient stone hill just north of Kaiwaka.

Mike Sabin's family and career experiences have helped his first term as a backbencher.

A 68-year-old man is dead after he was thrown from his dinghy following a collision with a yacht in Northland today.

Classic historic places are not just for the foreign tourists - retrace early New Zealand stories when you're on the road.

Danielle Wright takes her family to a Northland town so good they named it twice.

Two Auckland holidaymakers suspected of illegally fishing inside a Northland marine reserve could face charges.

Two cars collided tonight on State Highway 1 on the southern side of the Brynderwyn Hill south of Whangarei.

Three orca whales which were beached in a bay in Northland's Kaipara Harbour have made it safely back out to sea.

Police have found the Waipu woman who went missing from her home last night.

Elisabeth Easther finds out about the delights of one of Earth's great beauty spots.

An 11-year-old world-class cheerleader took a terrifying tumble on Saturday, after she was picked up by a gust of wind, leaving her mother to think she was dead.

In Mangawhai, hundreds of otherwise law-abiding home owners have been on a rates strike for more than a year.

A round trip to the Bay of Islands ticks all the boxes for Donna McIntyre.

Victims of a prominent Far North businessman who were sexually abused while in his care have expressed disappointment at the sentence handed down today.

The victims of a Kaitaia man jailed for five years for sexual offending say the fact he was preaching in church made it more difficult to complain about his actions.

The response was swift and pretty much universal: this was appalling, stomach churning, almost certainly criminal, writes Toby Manhire.

Housing NZ is looking at security at one of its houses after an 83-year-old former priest was hit over the head with a porcelain tea pot on Halloween.

There was this woman astride a horse, on a beach, far away at the top of NZ. She moved forward because these were her people's lands and she wouldn't be denied.

A husband watched in horror as an oncoming car smashed head-on into his wife's vehicle, travelling behind his.

The former principal of a Northland Christian school has appeared in court on sex abuse charges involving two young boys more than 40 years ago.

A Far North after-school care worker has been charged with child sex abuse.