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Stories and analysis from The Northern Express Herald.

'She taught us who we were'

There was this woman astride a horse, on a beach, far away at the top of NZ. She moved forward because these were her people's lands and she wouldn't be denied.

Final few metres of SH1 sealed

The final stretch of State Highway 1 was sealed today, allowing drivers a tarsealed ride from one end of the country to the other for the first time.

Land of the Long White Cloud

In 2004's <i>Kaikohe Demolition</i>, German-born New Zealand-bred filmmaker Habicht got to know the stars of a dodgems-to-the-death demolition derby in the Northland town of the title and then filmed the hilarious showdown.