The owners of a Kerikeri jewellery business are reeling after thieves targeted the best bling in the shop. Manufacturing and retail

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Olympic gold medal-winners Blair Tuke and Peter Burling will be honoured with a parade through Kerikeri's main street on Friday. The

A 22-metre long blue whale washed up on a private Far North beach has excited a marine mammal expert but also sparked a health warning as the giant sea creature decomposes.

Suspicious behaviour at a coastal holiday home has led to the discovery of a methamphetamine lab in Northland.

Police have arrested three young men following a number of burglaries in the Kerikeri region over the past couple of weeks.

The two people who died, Vernon Lawrence-Samuels and Ryan Wikaira, both 23, had been at rugby training before the accident.

Northland farmer who lost hundreds of thousands in income is offering a $50,000 reward for evidence that leads to a conviction.

The low immunisation rate of Northland teenagers could help a measles outbreak spread across the region, health officials fear.

The driver of a vehicle involved in a double fatality in Northland has been charged with causing the deaths and will appear in court this morning.

For a decade Garry and Cynthia Moran have seen first-hand the human carnage created by vicious dog attacks in their Northland street.

A 20-year-old man has drowned while swimming at the popular Charlies Rock waterhole in Kerikeri.

A man is in custody after a police armed offenders squad callout in which Kerikeri residents were evacuated from their homes.

Two people are seriously injured after their car crashed through a barrier and down a cliff in Kerikeri early this morning.

Rising Kiwi piano star Sylvia Jiang will soon be the toast of New York - but not before she wows Kerikeri.

A 15-year-old Northland boy died after succumbing to fatal injuries he sustained during an "absolute chance'' BMX accident, a coroner has found.

Mystery continues to surround the death of a young man whose body was found on Ninety Mile Beach in 2011, an inquest heard today.

No one has yet been arrested for throwing bleach into a regional council worker's face in a vicious highway attack in the Far North in June.

A domestic violence victim whose partner took her phone so she couldn't call police managed to raise the alarm via Facebook instead.

An owner of a children's entertainment company says she is "extremely remorseful'' for the injury caused to three children when a bouncy slide blew away.

Elisabeth Easther finds a Far North town steeped in history.

A grandmother who pulled a young family from a crashed car moments before it burst into flames says she was "in the right place at the right time".

A Northland family have a quick-thinking passer-by to thank for saving their lives after a bizarre crash described by a policeman as the luckiest escape he has seen.