Stories by Peter de Graaf

Forget the voting happening somewhere overseas - here in Aotearoa the winner of another hotly contested, knife-edge election has just been announced.

The latest wave of sign vandalism in the Far North is believed to be connected to new speed limits.

A surgeon from the legendary Māori Battalion has inspired a mobile clinic designed to bring health services to the remotest corners of Northland.

A skin cancer expert is calling for sunscreen to be made cheaper - either by removing GST or offering prescriptions - to reduce New Zealand's sky-high melanoma rate. Audio

The 13km section of State Highway 1 has been closed since August 2022.

Health New Zealand says patients at Dargaville Hospital were safe and well-looked after.

Nurses and local managers have now agreed to keeping Dargaville Hospital open.

It was believed the man had burns to 80 percent of his body.

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The man may have been trapped under the rolled bike for 24 hours before being spotted by a boatie.

Northland makes it onto the list on the strength of its rare wildlife and "excellent diving".

The sight of a crop never grown before in New Zealand has been baffling residents.

RNZ understands the developer has received a formal letter requesting a sweep of the property with a kiwi-detecting dog.

The full terror of what happened in the caves - and acts of heroism that almost certainly saved students' lives - has been revealed.

A top climate scientist says damaging storms such as Cyclone Gabrielle may not become more frequent as a result of climate change - but they will become more intense.

The Far North District Council is considering opting in to the government scheme, which would see the council and central government split the cost of buying out desperate home owners.

A Northland photographer whose images immortalised the social upheaval and flower power movement of London's 'Swinging Sixties' has died aged 85.

Beefed-up transmission lines allowing more energy to be produced in the Far North, and a grid-scale battery to keep the lights on if the national grid fails again, are among options being explored…

The descendants of some of Northland's earliest European settlers are using rugby to reconnect with family left behind more than a century ago. Audio

There are also "a number of gaps" in the roster for the rest of the month, a leaked staff memo says.

The Electricity Authority has confirmed it is investigating the national grid operator following the collapse of a pylon earlier this year.

The collision left one man with critical injuries and sank a historic ferry

The local MP described the $1 million as a "goodwill payment"because neither Transpower nor Omexom were under any legal obligation to pay compensation.

A Northland business group is welcoming the heavy focus on infrastructure in the government's list of local projects singled out for fast-tracked consenting.

Any such speculation is "utterly wrong", Shane Reti says.