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

Police are considering charging a mother who left her baby alone in a van while she went shopping on a steaming hot Christmas Eve in downtown Whangarei.

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.