A man who drove like a "complete idiot" was arrested after a five-hour manhunt during which he tried to ram a police car, and hurled a pie out his window.

The Tangiteroria Tavern is now the pub with no beer after 90 years of serving locals and travellers between Whangarei and Dargaville. Owner

A kitesurfer has cheated possible death after becoming tangled in his kite lines at Muriwai Beach.

Winston Peters is calling for immigrant employers caught underpaying workers or forcing them to work long hours to be deported.

Northlanders' generosity is overflowing -- so much so a new processing centre and outlet shop for donated items to hospice has opened. The

Moses Mahanga was found dead in a vehicle in Otangarei on William Jones Dr on October 4.

Aucklanders are not only snapping up residential properties in Whangarei for investment but also commercial and industrial buildings

They're the organisation that's aiming to go out of business. But Whangarei's Tai Tokerau Emergency Housing Trust is busier than

MC051016NADSHOOTING1.JPG: A man was found dead in the driver's seat of a white-coloured Mitsubishi car parked on the side of William

New Zealand's most expensive new residential lodge will open its doors to guests from the start of next month.

Good information from Whangarei store workers led to the arrest of a "professional shoplifter" and her co-offender, police say.

A doctor who prescribed controlled drugs to her partner while she was working at Whangarei Hospital - including morphine - was justifiably

Two families have reached a custody agreement over the dog - named either Wilson or Bear depending who you asked.

SUP250916alien001.JPG / Waipu's Ethan Trembath, Henry de Jong and Lewis de Jong - aka Alien Weaponry - won two major music competitions

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has advised dairy farmers in Northland to sort out their employment and time records

Police have released security camera pictures from a terrifying armed robbery in Whangarei as they try to track down the offenders. The

Cadaver dogs are searching bush for a gang member missing since March.

Artwork has started springing up among Whangarei's election hoardings as two mayoral candidates try a different tack in their campaigning. Matt

A Northland woman who revealed her story of sexual and physical abuse in an orphanage has been described as a "courageous warrior

Was it truly Thor who was spotted buying a Lord of the Rings novel in Whangarei, or was it an imposter?

A woman who was sent an invoice five years late has been left wondering what else is gathering dust in the council's billing system.

A Whangarei man has pleaded guilty to exposing himself in front of children inside a pre-school and outside a primary school, then

Police are appealing for information about the whereabouts of an elderly man who has gone missing from a Whangarei rest home.

A "super pod" of about 25 orcas have been socialising and hunting stringrays in the Whangarei Harbour. Northland orca expert Ingrid

An ocean conservationist instrumental in setting up the Poor Knights Islands marine reserve has welcomed the more than $25,000 fines

A Whangarei teen treated as his father's "dogsbody" has been jailed for more than nine years, for his role in the country's largest

A former Whangarei Department of Corrections worker awarded $7000 after she complained of sexual harassment - including an allegation

More than half of New Zealand's 41,000 homeless people are now families with children, according to new Otago University research.

"Stupid idiots" smashed through a fence, knocked bollards out of the ground and left skid marks across a Whangarei sporting field

A repeat dope grower caught cultivating nearly $100,000 worth of cannabis commercially inside a garage has been jailed for more than