Northland

The sealing of a once perilous road means visitors to significant battle sites no longer have to risk life and limb to get there.

Marjorie Julia Cranstoun Mannion and her son Gerald De Vere Mannion died at the scene, police say.

Rachel Jordan says she's not the same person after the devastating crash.

The ACT leader is the architect of the Treaty Principles Bill that proposes to rewrite the treaty principles before putting them to a public vote.

The fishing competition organiser says a boat jetty protest by iwi members was misdirected.

Grant McCallum has called a local iwi's blockade of the boat ramp "illegal actions".

It is one of the great debacles of NZ history-keeping - an irreplaceable physical collection of more than a million photos almost ended up in a rubbish dump. But some have been even harder to track…

The protest organiser says "It's now time for Māori to rise up, to intensify the struggle and make a stand".

A roadblock preventing fishers from using a boat ramp in the Far North has been lifted - but protesters say they will be backto make sure boats are not launched.

Northland is set to receive an additional $4 million towards flood resilience projects, a year since Cyclone Gabrielle battered the area.

Civil Defence says the 2023 cyclone was the biggest event in Te Tai Tokerau in a generation.

A long-awaited two-lane bridge will open in the Far North next week - but initially it will be only one way at a time, just like the old one.

A 64-year-old man and his 86-year-old mother died when their car hit a tree and caught fire in Northland overnight.

Four people have made it safely back to land after their boat flipped during a fishing trip in the Far North this evening.

Northland roading crews have made more than 300 repairs to the scenic and freight routes ahead of next month's shutdown.

Four people have been hospitalised after getting into difficulty in the water in the Far North on Saturday.

In the most anticipated political race since last year's general election, a piglet named David Seymour has beaten porker "The Jones Boy" - named in honour of NZ First's Shane Jones - by a nose.

Pig racing with contestants named after politicians is expected to be one of the highlights of the Kaikohe A&P Show.

Police say a woman who was found in her wheelchair on SH1 near Kaikohe has been reunited with her family and is safe and well.

The death happened at Ruakākā Beach, south of Whangārei this morning.