Peter de Graaf

It has been made possible by "incredible generosity" from the Northland community.

Residents of Tautuku Beach, on the south Otago coast, had reported seeing a group of motorists and trail bike riders taunting a sea lion for two successive days.

A Northland lines company says substation break-ins are endangering lives and causing power cuts affecting thousands of people.

It has been a decade since residents in a small Far North town were placed under a notice - and it's not a milestone anyone is celebrating. Audio

What campers described as a twister hit Tauranga Bay Holiday Park in the Far North on Tuesday morning.

A resident has described fleeing a 'twister' and pulling a man trapped in one caravan while another was smashed to pieces.

A former St John volunteer days it was "not untypical" for people to wait an hour or two for an ambulance in rural Northland.

Much of hapū hui agenda taken up by discussions of sovereignty and bill which aims to impose a single settlement on Ngāpuhi.

Far North Mayor Moko Tepania has yet to decide if he'll seek a second term, with multiple political parties trying to convince him to run for Parliament instead.

Excitement is building and accommodation is packed as the city hosts the Māori All Blacks and Scotland on Saturday.

The figure was revealed to RNZ via a Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act request.

She is the second person facing charges.

Japanese longliner Chokyu Maru No.68 hit The Noises 25km northeast of Auckland last year.

An ambitious plan to restore the health of Northland's largest lake is set to begin within a year, funding permitting.

Northland has been battered by record-breaking rain, a cyclone, a tornado and a harsh drought. So what's being done to fix the area's long-running water woes? Audio

A kapa haka group with a difference is practising furiously for its first-ever public performance in Kerikeri this Matariki weekend. Audio

This year has already brought almost every possible weather extreme to Northland, with record rain hot on the heels of a drought, a cyclone and even a tornado. Is this a sign of things to come? Audio

The region has been hit by drought, record rainfall and a cyclone just this year.

That led the investigation team to conclude an electrical fault was the most likely cause of the fire.

The collapse of the national grid operator's tower in Northland cut electricity to 88,000 customers.

Work was just about to start on repurposing the historic ship Tui when it was destroyed in a fire on Wednesday.

The cause of a fire that destroyed a historic ship at the Paihia waterfront may never be known, a fire investigator says.

Dargaville suffered after a massive outage caused by four separate pipeline ruptures last week.

Kaikohe sought to remember Catalya Remana Tangimetua-Pepene whose death has rocked the small town.

Fisheries Minister Shane Jones said consultation on the proposal would start soon, and would be controversial.