Stories by Peter de Graaf

Dutch paddler Koos Wabeke says getting involved with kaupapa waka - and learning about the Māori world - has changed his life.

Free car parks have been set up in Haruru, near Paihia, for people to make use of the free shuttle buses.

Police have charged a 20 year old with murder after the death of 18-year-old motorcyclist Kyle Jenkins in Northland.

It may be the final nail in the coffin of a a project that's sharply divided the small community for nearly five years.

The twister would have killed people if it had struck during the day instead of 3am, Mark Mitchell says.

In emails, chief medical officer urged Health NZ head to make the call: "There comes a point where we have to recognise that we have reached the limit of our actions."

DOC is considering revising trap standards after the bird's bill was caught and it was killed.

A senior Northland doctor was so worried about a lack of medical staff in Dargaville overnight she was convinced it was too risky to keep the town's hospital open.

Mangawhai has been compared to a war zone, with houses destroyed, roofs torn off, debris scattered across roads and power poles ripped out.

There was supposed to be an open home at 81-year-old Alan Johnson's house on Sunday, but it had been torn to shreds during the storm that hit Mangawhai overnight.

Allowing a company to apply for fast-tracked consent to mine sand has galvanised opposition and brought previously disparate groups together, the plan's critics say.

New Zealand's biggest multi-day keel boat regatta gets underway in the Bay of Islands today, with just under 100 vessels and more than 500 sailors set to take part.

Residents are being warned to brace for heavy rain and gale-force winds as a subtropical low sweeps down from Northland.

Water supplies will be under additional strain when tens of thousands of people descend on the region for Anniversary Weekend and Waitangi Day.

The Mick Griffin Memorial Trophy was taken in a burglary in which a car was also stolen.

The boy who died after falling from a cliff near Hāhei Beach in Coromandel was 13 years old. Audio

Organisers were busy signing up a rush of last-minute entrants on Saturday morning.

Whangārei firefighters are confident they will be able to contain a large scrub fire burning on the outskirts of the city by the end of Friday. Fire and Emergency New...

A 13-hour outage forced many shops to close or switch to cash-only transactions for a day.

But how it ended up in the sea remains a mystery.

Mystery surrounds a large, ornate Māori carving found washed up on a Northland beach.

A stern but loving auntie, a woman of unshakeable principle, the very definition of a wāhine toa - those are just a few of the tributes flooding in for Dame Tariana Turia.

The newly restored Cape Brett Hut is one of a handful of huts run by the Department of Conservation in Northland.

Waikato police are concerned by the number of parents who had no idea where their children were during last night's New Year's Eve festivities.

A surge of visitors post-Christmas is just what the Bay of Islands needed, business owners say