TOP's Gareth Morgan: O'Sullivan "ticks a number of boxes" - but National is calling too.

Offender is still on the loose after multiple shots were fired at a property yesterday.

Shots fired near Ahipara School prompts lockdown but gunman still on loose.

Two Far North women took the oaths and officially became Justices of the Peace last week.

Locals have been left shocked after a fatal crash on Ninety Mile Beach

Archaeological dig finds remains of 12 young British soldiers and sailors at Ruapekapeka

90 Mile Beach is open road, but a sign at Waipapakauri Ramp declares a limit of 30km/h.

Aussie beauty Elle Macpherson is reveling in the laid-back north.

A volunteer with the search party found Peter Hobson and his three sons before 11am.

Chris Radich suffered wounds to both hands when he was attacked by three dogs.

Fire prompts safety warning about stacking hot towels straight out of the drier.

Three people have been taken to Bay of Islands Hospital following the crash.

Police are trying to locate the driver of a car that hit and killed a pedestrian.

The crash happened just after 11pm near Kaikohe in the Far North.

Meeting of police and public comes up with plenty of ideas to make town better.

Jim Morgan, 93, and his pet were attacked by a dog last year - now it's happened again

The boys were captured on CCTV breaking in to Kaeo's BP service station.

A Kaikohe photographer captures the drama as police stop a fleeing unlicensed driver.

The last section of Northland's Twin Coast Cycle Trail will be officially opened next week.

A Far North man has admitted allowing his dogs to attack a fur seal pup, then killing the injured animal by smashing its head against a rock and taking it home to feed his chooks.

New unit allows teen mums in Northland to achieve their dreams

Derek Wheeldon, 80, and his wife Carol, 70, know they live in a beautiful place, but criminals are well and truly spoiling it.

A dog owner said incident that saw a dog dragged to its death was a "horrible accident".

SPCA investigating a report of a dog being dragged behind an SUV in the Far North.

Mayors in three of New Zealand's poorest districts - the Far North, Rotorua and Gisborne - want to take over central Government agencies in their areas to eradicate "entrenched poverty".

Fire has raced through native scrubland in the bed of a dried-out lake in the Far North.

A couple of boxer-cross puppies have been plucked from a certain death at Northland dump where they'd been abandoned in a black rubbish bag.

A century ago New Zealand was in the grip of World War I, in which 18,500 members of the country's 1.16 million population were killed

Three saved as boat hit rocks and starts taking on water in the Bay of Islands.

Auckland and Northland are about to get much-needed rain with a line of thunderstorms off the coast of the North Island.