Latest from Kaipara District

‘Critically endangered’: DoC survey seeks Māui dolphin sightings

The DoC survey aims to find Māui dolphin numbers off North Island's west coast.

Whangaroa hapū get support from Greenpeace for chasing off mining

Whangaroa hapū's successful anti-mining opposition praised

News in brief from the Far North - No arrests at Waitangi, seal work on SH10 and earthworks feedback

News snippets from the Far North.

Kaitāia homes could tap Sweetwater this week

Kaitāia residents to soon get water from controversial Sweetwaters project.

Northland’s Waipu Car and Bike Show has 800 cars, 200 bikes

Plenty of classic cars and bikes at Waipu Car and Bike Show.

‘It’s real bad’: Northland’s shocking rate of vehicle testing failures

More than a quarter of the country's vehicles fail their fitness checks on testing

‘Gut-wrenching’: Thieves clear out farm’s 24,000 prized oysters

The stolen oysters were the award-winning AMS Qyster with a distinctive ‘Q’ brand.

Waitangi Day: Māori, Government tensions persist over Treaty issues

Despite 185 years of Te Tiriti, the relationship still needs work, says Pita Tipene.

Kaitāia’s Bike and Hike Backpackers becoming apartments after local couple buy building

Kaitāia's Juan and Rachel Heemi are developing former backpackers into accommodation

Kotahitanga on display as hāngī feeds 10,000 people at Te Tii Waitangi Marae

From harvesting kai to weaving rourou baskets the sheer scale of the operation was massive

Retiring Hercules say farewell to Northland in twin fly over

Northland gets farewell fly over from NZ's retiring workhorse Hercules planes

Waitangi Day commemorations to draw thousands to Bay of Islands

Waitangi Day to be fine in the Far North with plenty of sun

News briefs from the Far North: 2 Lotto wins, flower show and car hits tree

News snippets from the Far North.

Peria School prizegiving awards student excellence

Students at Peria School in Far North lauded at prizegiving

'Postcode lottery': Northland's battle against cancer care inequities

Northland had the highest rate of new cancer diagnoses and the second-highest death rate.

'Grateful she’s alive': Daughter tells of mum’s survival after being sucked from home by tornado

Tina Johnson is in Middlemore Hospital and has undergone multiple surgeries.

Plans for Whangārei four-star hotel kept under wraps – for now

An international hotel chain is staying mum on its Whangārei hotel plans – it has to.

Final curtain call for much-loved theatre stalwart killed in Kaipara crash

Michael Craig Collins (Mike) died in a single-vehicle crash at Kaipara this month.