NZTA hopes a new road connecting Warkworth and Wellsford will reduce crash casualties on the route by 80 per cent.

Two people were seriously injured in the single car crash about 8am north of Warkworth.

The truck fire blocking part of SH1 south of Warkworth has been cleared, but traffic is still heavy.

A person was arrested after their erratic driving sparked a 45 minute police hunt.

Staff have been evacuated from a Countdown supermarket at Warkworth north of Auckland, because of a chemical leak.

A diesel spill and heavy holiday traffic is making it slow going north of Auckland.

Residents who were evacuated this afternoon have been allowed to return to their homes tonight.

Two people have been helicoptered to Auckland Hospital following a two-vehicle crash near Warkworth, north of Auckland, this afternoon.

The soon-to-be former Prime Minister has farewelled the Queen of England in a phone call this morning.

A 40-year-old pregnant woman critically injured in a car crash on Friday is now in a serious condition in hospital.

A pregnant woman is in hospital after suffering critical injuries when the car she was driving and another vehicle collided in the Dome Valley.

A two-car crash is causing heavy congestion on State Highway 1, south of Warkworth.

A man died after the car he was in was washed 100m down a flooded creek during heavy downpours in Northland.

A person has died after a serious crash near Warkworth, which closed State Highway 1 in both directions.

An Auckland woman is still rattled after finding a cyclist lying lifelessly on a road near Warkworth at the weekend.

COMMENT: With the passing of Auckland's Unitary Plan, Warkworth's notorious State Highway 1 intersection at Hill St just got worse.

Brazen thieves cut through a wire fence to steal items from the garage sale area of Hospice House in Warkworth - the second in less than a week.

A Whangarei man was forced to jump from a moving car after he was allegedly kidnapped then assaulted. Police confirmed the man suffered

The govt will put the financing and construction of the Puhoi-Warkworth Highway out to tender as a public private partnership.

A body has been found near an area where police were searching for missing fisherman Nick Stubbs.

Warkworth's village character and market town charm is being put at risk by a big retail development aimed at luring motorists on SH1, say residents.

One person has died after a a car and truck collided north of Auckland. It is the first road death of the long weekend.

The search for a Warkworth fisherman who has been missing for more than a week is continuing.

School friends of Nick Stubbs say they'll keep searching the sea everyday until they find their mate.

When Nick Stubbs and a mate left Martins Bay near Warkworth in a red fibreglass boat at 5pm on Tuesday, he told loved ones they 'wouldn't be long'.