Stories by Susan Botting

Waka Kotahi is revealing 'a timeline to reopening' State Highway One over the Mangamuka Gorge on Friday as the road undergoes a $100 million repair job.

Northland Mayoral Forum chair Vince Cocurullo says Cyclone Gabrielle exacerbated existing infrastructure damage, spreading across the region like smallpox.

Whangārei District Council has once again stepped into the Oruku conference and event centre ring with a decision to put as much as $11.4 million towards the new version of the facility on the edge of…

Cyclone Gabrielle was almost the final nail in the coffin for the $33 million tourist attraction.

Major increases are expected to be added to that amount as more definite figures emerge.

Whangārei Harbour - and others along Northland's east coast - are at risk from a new superspreader invasive pest seaweed devastating parts of Great Barrier Island, a Northland ocean ecologist...

A former Whangārei mayoral candidate is concerned about potentially toxic black mould for the 500 staff who will soon move into the building.

Marae play a key role in housing people after disasters and need more government backing, the prime minister says.

"We are talking years. If we are wanting to build a new highway, that's years."

The district's sole Māori ward councillor says she will not give up the fight to have every meeting start with one.

Far North District Council is remaining tight-lipped about the details surrounding the resignation of its chief executive Blair King.

The Te Tai Tokerau MP says Northlanders should not expect gold-plated fixes for the region's Cyclone Gabrielle-ravaged roads.

Twenty Kaipara properties have been red-stickered as the district begins to count the cost of Cyclone Gabrielle's fury.

Kaipara District councillor Ash Nayyar says he has been inspired by the human spirit after being rescued from raging floodwaters in the early-morning darkness.

Dargaville businesses are hurriedly sandbagging their premises amidst growing flooding fears as Cyclone Gabrielle's prevailing winds swing round to the south-west.

Whangārei would cope reasonably well if an Auckland-style rain deluge hit the district, Mayor Vince Cocurullo says.

The first of up to 90,000 Northlanders likely to soon be drinking water dosed with industrially-produced fluoride could be doing so within 18 months.

Whangarei District Council's almost $60 million civic centre is to be completed next month.

Northland councils are gearing up for Aotearoa's peak freedom camping season as the country's first summer in three years without Covid-19 travel restrictions arrives.

The organiser of this week's Kaipara karakia protest hikoi is petitioning Parliament to make the Māori tikanga feature mandatory for the more than 30 New Zealand councils with Māori electoral areas.

Craig Jepson was this afternoon unrepentant in the face of a 6000-signature petition calling for his resignation and a hikoi of more than 300 people through the streets of Dargaville.

Onerahi residents opposed to shifting Northland's rescue helicopter base from Kensington to Whangārei airport have gone to the High Court.

Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon is calling on Kaipara's new Mayor to reconsider his ban on karakia at the start of council meetings.

Associate Local Government Minister Kieran McAnulty will soon visit Northland to check out vulnerable communities that could potentially be forced into managed retreat in the face of climate-change…

A Far North District councillor-elect who used her own unofficial document at a swearing in ceremony, will on Thursday sign her organisation's official declaration.