Stories by Peter de Graaf

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

Last-minute campers will be especially hard pressed to find a spot at the region's Department of Conservation campgrounds.

Jesse's on the Waterfront, in the historic town of Mangōnui, is making sure people who could have gone hungry today will instead go home full of good food and Christmas spirit.

A Whangārei hapū is describing an Environment Court decision to quash consents for a housing development on significant land as "the best Christmas present ever".

The judges who threw out a consent for a Whangārei subdivision say it is one of the clearest cases they have ever seen of a site that should not be developed because of its significance to Māori.

Power company Mercury will start building Northland's first wind farm next month, using the largest turbines ever seen in New Zealand.

Frustrated Dargaville residents say they are being denied a proper Kiwi Christmas due to the early imposition of water restrictions.

A Northland woman attacked by roaming dogs earlier this month says it pains her to know a child has been mauled on the same beach.

A new boardwalk, viewing platform and bridge have been installed to protect NZ's largest surviving kauri from a deadly pathogen.

The two-and-a-half year closure of part of SH1 cut people off from family members, shops and health services.

For more than two years, locals have faced long detours on rough roads, isolation from friends and family, and higher transport costs. Audio

Health Minister Shane Reti says stage one is still on budget and on track to be completed by 2031.