Northland

Orders for avocado trees have sky-rocketed in recent years. Stephen Wade's nursery has gone from selling five- thousand trees a year 15 years ago to 150-thousand today.

A Northland teacher has been suspended for two years for drinking alcohol at school, causing his students' grades to suffer.

A 21-year-old cyclist has died after being hit by a truck on SH1 north of Whangarei.

After months of speculation, former Labour MP Shane Jones has announced he will stand for New Zealand First in Whangarei.

A luxury resort's plan to take up to 60,000 litres of water a day from a local creek to irrigate its lawns has angered a nearby landowner and local Māori.

An Auckland IT company is working on a plan to deliver medicines by drone to isolated communities.

Heavy rain overnight has left roads like rivers, trapping customers in a dairy and closing a number of schools.

In the Ngāpuhi mandate dispute - the hapū alliance Te Kotahitanga has rejected an invitation to meet the opposition, Tūhoronuku, as long as it is led by Sonny Tau.

It is impossible to fight unlawful disturbance of native wetlands after a Ombudsman's interim ruling on swamp kauri, a Northland conservation group says.

The Australian mining firm Evolution has called a halt to its exploration programme in the hills north of Whangārei.

A prisoner advocate group is hoping to get newspapers into all the country's prisons.

The Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangārei will be a superb boost for Māori artists, a prominent advocate for Māori art says.

"I've got people who are living in a lounge - just the whole whānau living in the lounge, 15 people - and they don't need any heating, because they're heating each other up." Audio

A Whangarei woman forced to live in a leaky bus as she recovered from surgery is now safe and warm in a local motel.