Stories by Peter de Graaf

The students from Motatau School will travel to an international aquabotics competition in Washington DC.

A much-loved Northland police officer who died when she was struck by a car has been farewelled with a full police service in Whangārei.

Keith Anthony McEwen was sentenced to preventive detention for the abduction of a Dutch couple on their honeymoon.

New Zealand's newest national mullet champion is a 10-year-old named Ted from Kerikeri.

A proposal to ditch ratepayer funding for the Northland Rescue Helicopter and other emergency services has sparked a record number of submissions to the Northland Regional Council.

The government is being urged to upgrade the "dilapidated" SH1 as soon as possible.

Fluoride is meant to be added to water for Kaitāia and Kerikeri 30 June - but two councillors put forward a motion to delay it for another two years.

The iwi-led drought relief programme is also training workers along the way. Audio

The closure of the Kiwibank counter has left elderly residents without vital services and business owners facing long trips by car to do their banking.

Whangārei's acclaimed, but controversial, Hundertwasser Art Centre could run out of money by October 2025 - which means ratepayers may have to stump up to keep it open. Audio

A Northland school is urging the government to rethink its plans to cut back the free lunches programme, saying the meals have greatly improved student attendance and behaviour. Audio

"We just couldn't keep up", say Northland businesses reporting a bumper Easter weekend.

It's a long way from Motatau to America - but it's a journey a group of kids from this remote Northland valley are determined to make to compete with the best in underwater robotics.

Four-legged athletes will thunder down Ninety Mile Beach in what is being called "the biggest miniature horse race in the world". Audio

Working families on two incomes are increasingly among those who can no longer afford rent, charities and advocates in Northland say.

A dedicated Northland emergency coordination centre will be built in Whangārei in a bid to improve the region's response to future natural disasters.

Volunteers Robert and Robyn Webb rescue and treat about 1300 birds every years for 35 years - but a lack of funding is putting their work at risk.

New research pours cold water on the notion of New Zealand as a geologically young country by suggesting it has an ancient, rocky core more than 3 billion years old.

He served in Egypt and Italy before returning to the family farm at Motukauri, in North Hokianga.

One of Northland's most keenly anticipated bridges ha opened, almost nine years after it was promised during a hotly contested by-election campaign.

Hundreds have taken the chance to share their views with a Royal Commission of Inquiry that's visiting the region.

Scruffy, sick-looking penguins turning up on beaches around New Zealand during summer are undergoing part of their natural life cycle and nothing to worry about, a bird expert says.

Trucks with trailers will be banned from one of the detours around the Brynderwyns when the slip-plagued highway between Auckland and Northland closes later this month.

Despite public calls for information the source of two dead wallabies in Northland is likely to remain a mystery.

A hospital built to cater for our national bird has already had its first patient after a kiwi was found trapped in a swimming pool filter.