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Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon is calling on Kaipara's new Mayor to reconsider his ban on karakia at the start of council meetings.

The Kaipara District Council's first meeting since the local election has kicked off with a bit of verbal biffo between the mayor and a Māori ward councillor. Video

The nearly $1 billion price tag and detailed plans for a Whangārei hospital redevelopment announced today brought relief to Northland health leadership.

What Covid-19 information are we missing out on, and random surveys of infections even worth doing any more?

Opinion - There has been some resistance to proposals on reducing urban speed limits right across the country but evidence suggests it's the right move, writes Simon Kingham.

New Zealanders in desperate need of a roof over their heads are increasing with services such as the Auckland City Mission providing a literal lifeline.

Māori wards have been only half successful in Taranaki, with voter turnout for the new wards a third lower than overall turnout across the region.

A Far North District councillor-elect who used her own unofficial document at a swearing in ceremony, will on Thursday sign her organisation's official declaration.

Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz has shown early support for a number of proposed reforms that aim to shake up how local government is done in New Zealand.

Whangārei hapū are challenging their district's council to embrace the Māori world in all it does.

Māori communities are worried the government's climate planning could override their own work and rangatiratanga.

The mayor of Waimakariri says the government's Three Waters proposal is too divisive to succeed. Audio

Te Tairāwhiti, the region with the highest proportion of Māori in the country, now has Māori wards for its council for the first time.

A radical shake up is being proposed to address plummeting voter turnout and a lack of diversity around council tables.

Five hundred people gathered to pōwhiri New Zealand's first mayor to have also stood for a Māori ward, and his Far North District Council.

Auckland's first wāhine Māori councillor says she will encourage a change to let mana whenua have voting powers.

A 31-year-old te reo teacher is the first Māori to be elected mayor of the Far North.

The number of women politicians across Northland local government leadership has shrunk by almost a quarter in the wake of this year's local elections.

The final count for the election in Marlborough has seen two seats changed from the preliminary result released earlier in the week.

Analysis - Rotorua will be looking to its new mayor Tania Tapsell to find solutions - and fast.