Northland

Health worker shortages have become so bad in the Far North that Rāwene Hospital will soon have no doctor on-site in the evenings or overnight - and one GP says shortages are threatening lives. Audio

Kaitaia residents may be taking the long way round for months after torrential rain badly damaged the main route into town; State Highway One through the Mangamuka Gorge.

Some farmers in the Nelson Tasman region are still cut off and are forced to dump milk after more severe weather over the weekend.

Authorities trying to curb the flow of illegally obtained two-way radio devices have charged a Northland man with importing them without a licence.

Ten thousand electric and hydrogen buses should be purchased by the Government to support its public transport sustainability goals, a Northland sector veteran says.

Residents in the Far North say the heavy rain, wild weather and flooding has been the worst for a long time.

The Far North deputy mayor is worried about high tide, which is set to strike the eastern coast of the rain-soaked region at midnight. Audio

Te Tai Tokerau children finishing primary school have the worst tooth decay in the country.

Residents around Onerahi airport would effectively be "carrying the can" for the rest of the region with major new "noise pollution" expected if the rescue helicopter base shifts there, says a…

The family of a man mauled to death say they have heard nothing from the owner of the aggressive dogs found at his property.

The last of the dogs missing from a Northland property where a man was killed in a suspected mauling has been found.

Twenty-five neo mastiff crosses and bulldog crosses have been rounded up at the Northland property where a man was killed in a suspected mauling yesterday afternoon.

Police believe a man has been killed by dogs in the Far North community of Panguru - and some are still on the loose.

A Whangārei company has been sentenced after a trailer came off its truck and hit a car behind, killing a nine-year-old girl.

A teenager who stabbed a young Northland man to death has been sentenced to life in prison.

Plans to build an 850-seat riverside conference and events centre in Whangārei have been revived.

The upper North Island took a pounding on Monday with heavy rain and winds wild enough to tip trucks and knock out power - but weather warnings are now in place in the north and south of the country.

The Northland hospital's move was part of infection prevention controls, while more than 30 aged care facilities in the lower South Island struggle with infections.