Northland

The search for a teen missing in a Northland cave has been suspended until Wednesday morning.

Evacuations are being carried out in Tasman after a stream breached its banks, with orange heavy rain warnings in place there, in Nelson, Marlborough, Northland, Taranaki and Westland. Audio

Country Life turns back the clock ten years to our visit with the late Far North farmer Ken Vincent. Back in 2013, he'd been breeding chooks for 70 years.

Streams and rivers are rising and flooding has been reported in North Taranaki, Civil Defence says. Audio

A couple involved in dealing drugs and a failed attempt at cooking methamphetamine which resulted in an explosion causing $100,000 in financial losses have been sentenced.

Police have seized drugs and firearms at a Northland property this week, which they say was linked to Black Power and alleged drug dealing.

Whangārei's old town hall "eyesore" is to live on in a now $7.43 million renovation due to start by June - in spite of five of the city's leaders wanting...

Downpours have hit Northland, Auckland and Coromandel overnight, with Kaikohe seeing 200 millimetres of rain in 24 hours and the Karangahake Gorge closed due to a slip. Audio

A fire that destroyed a family's home and left a woman and three children in hospital could have turned into an "absolute tragedy", a top firefighter says.

The O Mahurangi Penlink project is due to be completed in 2026.

MetService has issued gale warnings for the upper-North Island's coastline, with some Northland households without power overnight as heavy rain hits the region.

Northland has escaped any major problems from the weather so far, but Emergency Management is expecting further downpours this afternoon.

There have been some heavy rainfalls recorded overnight in Northland as a belt of wet and windy weather moves across the upper North Island.

Heavy rain and high winds are expected to reach Northland by 8pm before spreading to Auckland, Great Barrier Island and the Coromandel by early Sunday.

A hillside has been "reformed" and loose material removed so that the vital link in and out of Northland can be restored, Waka Kotahi says.

A sizeable chunk of state housing is on flood prone land, with more builds being put on land expected to flood in the future.

AgResearch is teaming up with regional councils and Rural Contractors New Zealand to collate information on alligator weed in a bid to better understand its spread.

Shayden Perkinson, 25, was the victim of what police said was a serious assault last weekend.