Revered Maori leader Sir Graham Latimer was farewelled by hundreds of mourners at a funeral in Northland yesterday.

Northland's top roading cop is "horrified and astounded" after a driver was stopped allegedly doing 165km/h on a busy stretch of Northland state highway.

When Lee Rata was severely beaten last year, Seddon Beazley took the opportunity to further his standing with the Mongrel Mob. However, his mother knew different.

A Whangarei steel company is thrilled at winning a Convention Centre steel contract, which has already started providing new jobs for Northlanders, with more on the way.

A collision between a car and a logging truck near the Otaika Shops in Whangarei has caused a traffic back up this morning.

A "horrific" Queen's Birthday weekend on the roads where 11 people died in crashes over three days, the highest toll in 27 years.

Nazi concentration camp survivor Bob Narev has spent his life trying to warn people about the dangers of standing by and letting others be cruel.

Two dramatic videos have been released showing how Northland's forests are collapsing due to chronic underfunding of the Department of Conservation and lack of pest control.

Eleven people have died on our roads up until midnight, the highest number of deaths for a Queen's Birthday weekend since 1989.

The Fire Service was called to the crash at a passing lane north of Kawakawa just before 7pm.

Roadworks on the Brynderwyn Hills are already $3 million over budget, Northland MP Winston Peters says, claiming the blowout will rise and put at risk other vital roading projects.

Northland will get a new site and buildings for a Hokianga school and 16 new classrooms at three others as part of a $19 million building spend up announced by the Government.

What began as an effort to live a healthier lifestyle led to a dangerous condition for this young woman.

Warning - contains offensive language: A Whangarei police constable racially abused a Maori man several times before his arrest for assaulting police, a jury has heard.

A driver escaped unhurt after the logging truck he was driving caught fire in Northland this morning.

The low immunisation rate of Northland teenagers could help a measles outbreak spread across the region, health officials fear.

Paul Harris is on trial in the High Court at Whangarei having pleaded not guilty to the murder of Joseph Rowland Keogh last year.

A 26-year-old man is dead after the vehicle he was driving rolled on State Highway 10 early this morning.

A crash involving a logging truck in Otaika Valley Road has become the seventh logging truck crash in Northland just over seven weeks.

A Northland man out shooting possums with his family at night was confronted by a neighbour who tried to wrestle a slug gun off the hunter before stabbing him, a jury has heard.

A fifth case of measles has been confirmed in Northland with the DHB desperately urging people to make sure they are immunised.

A victim rights group has slammed a sentence handed down to a Northland man for raping a 3-year-old girl and giving her a sexually-transmitted disease.

Property manager calls for a public register naming tenants who contaminate rental properties with methamphetamine.

Relief for Northland family of 4-year-old autistic girl Hailey Alver after she went missing and was found shivering next to a tree in dense forest last night.