The $5.5m winning Powerball ticket sold at a Whangarei store has been claimed. Wednesday's winning ticket, which was made up of $5

JS171116NADLOTTO045.JPGSunnyside Foodmarket owners Ketan and Sejai Patel were excited after selling the $5.5m winning Lotto ticket

A man will appear in the Manukau District Court tomorrow charged with the murder of Moses Mahanga.

Skywatchers may have a chance to see a supermoon tonight, a phenomenon now shining over the region that won't be visible again until 2034.

JS141116NADQUAKE115.JPG A planned surf lesson for a group of international students at Sandy Bay went ahead yesterday after instructors

JS141116NADQUAKE132.JPG/Whangarei women Maria Poolman and Rebecca Te Namu were knocked off their feet in their Wellington hotel room

A Whangarei design school which caters for young creatives may have to close this year, because it looks likely to lose government

SUP101116NADfitmums001.JPG/Healthy Whangarei mums Courtney Morgan, Charlotte Hufschmidt-McAulay, Terri Logan and Jeanine Rossouw have

Three vehicles were involved in the crash which happened on State Highway 1 south of Whangarei.

Fears that aliens were taking over Northland have been allayed by weather experts who say a cloud - not an alien mother ship - was

Average house prices in Whangarei have increased by nearly $11,000 in a month.

Float the idea of a dip in Whangarei's Town Basin and most people will respond with some variation of "ew .... bad idea". But that's

Almost two-thirds of Aucklanders who don't own their own homes plan to buy their first homes outside the city.

A Northland man has appeared in court on a charge of rape and two of unlawful sexual connection with a female. He also faces a charge

A Whangarei business owner is "a bit dumbfounded" by a council decision to leave the majority of his recycling on the pavement. But

JS021116NADABDUCT032.JPG McClintock St resident Melanie Aitcheson is disappointed a 10-year-old boy was nearly abducted and has vowed

Investigators have started detailed work to find the cause of a Northland helicopter crash which claimed two lives.

Police are investigating an attempted abduction where a man tried to force a 10-year-old boy into the boot of a car as he walked home from school.

The two men who were killed in a helicopter crash near Whangarei have been named.

The Northland forest in which a helicopter crashed, killing two people, is so dense no wreckage was visible even from the air soon

It was a wild day of weather for the upper North Island yesterday, but what will today bring?

JS271016NADSCHOLS083.JPG Chris Pidgeon, one of 16 scholarship winners, with John Ma and Callum Hill who have attended the same schools

Lifeguards have cautioned motorists to drive to conditions on Northland beaches this summer following a crash between two cars put

A_JS251016NADBITE034.JPG The dog that attacked 6-year-old Tyree Walters will be returned to its owners. PHOTO/JOHN STONE By Mikaela

An epidemic of methamphetamine is ripping communities apart - but the fightback has begun.

Six Auckland men who were arrested in connection with the seizure of 494kg of methamphetamine on Ninety Mile Beach and at Totara North in June have elected trial by jury.

A young Whangarei man has admitted stealing tobacco products worth nearly $10,000 after breaking into two service stations. Joseph

A Whangarei man has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for assaulting, abducting and sexually violating a woman jogger in an early morning attack.

A man who admitted snatching a woman from a popular Whangarei walking track and assaulting her at his home will be sentenced today.

Rachael Beardsall says she and her partner have had to go without to ensure their three children do not starve. So when she heard