The latest news bites from around the region.

Northland cookbook author Anna Valentine shares tips on foraging for edible weeds.

Anthony Edwards is being treated in Chandigarh for neuroendocrine cancer.

The latest newsbites from around the region.

'My time spent in the house taught me to be a better human being.'

The 58-year-old was flown to hospital with critical injuries.

A small investment in youth wellbeing goes a long way in making a difference.

I wonder about the extent of sense-checking around some speed limit changes.

Can you guess which baby names proved the most popular in Northland?

Joined the gym but doubt you'll stick at it? Northland gym owners have advice for that.

'The circumstances leading up to Neill’s death have raised serious concerns'

Fifty-six of the country's best young singers to perform

The delicate Mermaid Pools used to have up to 1000 visitors a day.

Friends of Maunu Cemetery help tidy the grounds once a week as a way to give back.

Motorists should expect diversions to be in place.

Mangōnui's Jasmine Keir creates an abstract world that mirrors the patterns of nature.

Sky was a stray a Kawakawa man wanted to adopt, but council took her from a locked kennel.

The diver was known to many as a 'tireless' and 'hardworking' community man.

The white pointer, believed to be 3m long, was spotted leaping out of the water.

Water safety education appears to be having an impact in the north.

Twenty-month-old girl Azalea-Reign Kiani May Samuels died after being struck by a vehicle.

The last 10 to 15 days of January are ones to watch in terms of possible heavy rain.

One Whangārei cafe owner says this is the busiest summer ever.

A bull died at last year's event but that was the exception, organisers say.

The improvements were vital in a town which had no public transport.

"Going around the course you see all kinds of boats and rigs."