A dolphin known as 'Potato' has been spotted swimming in Whangarei harbour with a dead calf on her fins.

Northland campers ran to the aid of a man whose foot was severely injured by an outboard motor propeller.

After 54 hours in the open, missing 90-year-old June Wickman was found alive by her grandsons yesterday, amazing rescuers.

A con-artist has taken thousands of dollars from Northland shops in a sophisticated Eftpos scam. Police say the scam - involving a fake courier - is likely to have been used elsewhere in New Zealand

Temperatures were in the late twenties across the top half of the north today, with the humidity making it feel more like the thirties in Auckland.

A Russian billionaire has been given permission to build a 233m walkway along an untouched Northland coastline to get better access to his fishing boat.