Northland

Mayor Moko Tepania says Te Kaunihera o Te Hiku o Te Ika has restored the area's indigenous name.

Police say emergency services attempted to resuscitate the diver after they were pulled unresponsive from the water, but they died at the scene.

A host of iwi and organisations from te ao Māori were to the Treaty Grounds on Sunday, as part of Waitangi commemorations, including delegations from Kīngitanga, Rātana, Parihaka and Te Pāti Māori.

Perfect pass rates, a bar full of redheads and a new dark sky park for the South Island are among this week's feel-good stories.

Northland crews have been working to contain three scrub fires across the region.

Armed police are guarding a house in Kaikohe after the town's second shooting in less than 24 hours.

Two helicopters equipped with monsoon buckets are on their way to a large scrub fire near Doubtless Bay in the Far North.

Geoff Mansell is growing bananas and many other subtropical fruits to supply local supermarkets and he hopes others will do the same.

The peaceful march was part of a much longer hīkoi that left Te Rerenga Wairua, or Cape Reinga, at dawn on Thursday and is due to arrive at the Treaty Grounds on 6 February.

The Minister for Māori-Crown Relations was told to stop making jokes about Seymour at the National Iwi Chairs Forum.

The forum will host 74 iwi ahead of Waitangi Day, and they will be considering "how we deal with the new coalition government".

The government and others impacted by the invasive seaweed are closely watching the outcomes.

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…