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It's definitely not a winterless spot, but there's warmth in Northland's history, says Pamela Wade.

Just over a fifth of all working-age Northlanders were on welfare benefits at the end of March.

The impacts of the global financial crisis hit are ingrained in our communities.

One man died and another person was badly injured when a gyrocopter crashed north of Kaitaia.

Far North fire victim Hugh David Aarons yelled for help as his Kaitaia flat burned and neighbours frantically tried to break down his door to get him out.

The organiser of a hikoi which marched peacefully down Auckland's Queen Street today says the new foreshore and seabed legislation breaches the Treaty of Waitangi.

Police are asking for help to identify the badly decomposed body of a man found on Ninety Mile Beach in the far north on Sunday afternoon.

Suspended Maori Party MP Hone Harawira spent today talking with constituents in his Tai Tokerau electorate following a disciplinary hearing in Wellington on Wednesday. Te Tai Tokerau electorate chair Lisa McNab told NZPA Mr Harawira had

Waka ama is more than just the fun sport of outrigger canoeing, which fits in ideally with our Kiwi lifestyle and attracts paddlers of both sexes from age 7 to 70.

At least two children were in a Northland house shot at during an attempted murder on Christmas Eve, police say.

Three people have died on the roads so far this weekend in crashes near Wellsford, in the Far North and in west Auckland.

After two of her children developed rheumatic fever, Te Aroha Teriaki is warning parents to always err on the side of caution.