Stories by Peter de Graaf

The reduction was partly achieved by councillors and staff trawling through budgets line-by-line to find $8.5 million in savings, the mayor says.

The only other major freight route between Auckland and Northland remains closed at the Brynderwyn Hills.

The camera is on State Highway 1, in an 80km/h zone between Kawakawa and Moerewa.

There are big days in Kaitāia, and there are absolutely enormous days. Wednesday was one of the latter.

The nation's most troublesome stretch of State Highway 1 will be driveable in a matter of months - if no more major storms hit.

More than 1300 people have marched through Whangārei as part of a national day of action protesting government policies affecting Māori.

Five people aboard the Enchanter died in 2022 and the skipper, Lance Goodhew, has been on trial for breaches of safety law for the past three weeks.

It was be the organisation's third chairperson in six months.

There were emotional scenes in the Far North today as district councillors passed a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

The Department of Conservation has ordered Matutaera Te Nana Clendon to dismantle his illegal dwelling but he says he's not going anywhere. Audio

Dredging of the highly invasive seaweed could be finished by August, but only with another $5-million-plus in government funding, a Northland council leader says.

A Northland leader is calling on the government to provide financial support to businesses hard hit by the closure of State Highway 1 over the Brynderwyn Hills.

It had been due to reopen on 13 May but another seven weeks have been added to an already nine-week closure.

A mum living in a cold, mouldy sleepout with two kids says moving into the first of a kind housing will be life-changing for her whānau.

Residents on Moturoa, in Ipipiri, have been forced to relocate the reclusive birds after their population swelled into the hundreds.

Two men were originally missing, but the body of one of them was found just days into the search.

Barrier Air has announced it plans up to four return flights a day between Auckland and Kerikeri.

The only passenger to see the wave before it hit the boat said it was so big "I had to look up to see it", and estimated it was 10m high.

A deckhand on the ill-fated fishing boat Enchanter has revealed what happened in the hours after the vessel capsized - and his desperate efforts to save some of the passengers.

Lance Goodhew is on trial for allegedly breaching his duties as skipper of the Enchanter and putting individuals at risk of serious harm or death.

After the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Gabrielle, Kaipara's kumara growers are celebrating a bumper harvest.

An ambitious plan to make Northland the first region in New Zealand to eradicate wild deer is underway near the Bay of Islands. Audio

A kiwi wandered into a sawmill and spent a few hours exploring before hiding under a workbench.

Millennium and Copthorne Hotels is looking at a 110-room hotel in Whangārei as it expands its network.

More than a decade in the making, a blessing will be held Saturday to formally open Kaikohe's indoor sports stadium.