Northland

Hundreds of mourners have been paying their respects to the Waitangi chief, Kingi Taurua, who died last Thursday.

Police in the Far North have charged a man over a crash north of Kaitaia that killed two people.

'Dirty Dairy' is a tag that's out-dated and unfair, say Northland farmers who've invested heavily in cleaning up their act.

High-tech surveillance equipment and two tracking dogs have been called in after a wallaby was spotted in South Hokianga.

The public should have had a say in plans to revamp the historic Russell wharf, the Environmental Defence Society says.

People in desperate need of housing are suffering because the government-run Māori Housing Network isn't working properly, a Far North housing provider says.

The chief executive of Whangārei District Council is defending a proposal to spend $170,000 on rebranding.

The Department of Conservation will consult its iwi partners on what to do to about wild pigs in a Northland kauri forest.

The Northland economy is in for a boost as the Marsden Point oil refinery begins its biggest maintenance shut-down in more than a decade.

Convoys along State Highway 11 to Bay of Islands will begin again today after a slip closed the road at Lemons Hill in mid-February.

Convoys will begin again tomorrow through a road to the Bay of Islands severely damaged in a slip in February.

Wild pigs are causing terrible damage to ancient kauri forest on Northland's rugged west coast, a farmer says.

A Russell ratepayer is threatening court action over moves to change the ownership of the town's wharf.

A police search for the owner of a car found submerged in the Tairua River is to resume at 7am today.

Two people have been critically injured after a crash near Whangārei this morning.

An extensive aerial search has been unable to find a fisherman who went missing from Karikari peninsula last Thursday.

An inflatable boat belonging to a fisherman who has been missing off the Northland coast since Thursday has been found.