Northland

Trade Me is aware firearms were purchased through the account of the man who shot and killed two women at a Whangarei property last week, the company says.

Northland police have found what they think is a firearm, next to the suspected remains of the man who shot two women dead in Whangarei on Wednesday. Video, Audio

The man who shot and killed two women in Whangarei was jailed in the 1980s after he viciously attacked a police dog handler. Audio

Quinn Patterson, the man suspected of shooting dead two property managers, had been difficult and aggressive, a friend of the women says. Audio

The Ministry of Health, not the ratepayers, should be bankrolling Northland's rescue helicopter service, a Far North regional councillor says.

A slip has closed State Highway 25A in the Coromandel in both directions.

The Northland Regional Council has offered to lend nearly $10 million to replace the region's ageing rescue helicopters, but the deal needs ratepayers' approval.

The mayor of Kaipara was unaware of the extent of homelessness in his town until a community meeting this afternoon, he says.

One family ended up camped out in their car next to public toilets, a Methodist church leader in the Northland town says. Audio

A Northland paper failed to validate claims by an amateur historian that a pre-European race of people settled New Zealand, the Press Council has ruled.

Five children, all under the age of 14, have been reported to police by their families over widespread damage to a school in Kaikohe. Video