Concerns are held for the safety of a three-year-old boy taken by his father after a violent family incident in Whangarei today.

A major financier has repossessed equipment from the owner of forestry business HarvestPro New Zealand.

A massive pipi bed in Whangarei harbour is dying and there are fears the change could destabilise the harbour - and Marsden Point itself, Radio NZ reports.

With more children coming to school hungry, a scientific study will for the first time guage the impact nutrition — or lack of it — has on learning.

Two people killed in Whangarei yesterday, sparking a homicide investigation, have been named by police.

A man has been found dead in Whangarei in the early hours of this morning, in unexplained circumstances.

Two bodies have been found in a house in Whangarei this morning.

For a less-crowded coastal experience, Smuggler's Cove at Whangarei Heads is for you.

Mission Bay Reserve is one of Auckland's most popular summer evening spots. So why are the men's loos allowed to get so filthy?

Whangarei District Council spent nearly $29,000 trying to dispose of a businessman's truck worth $1500 it seized for displaying advertising signs on a public road.

Northland Police have launched a homicide investigation following a violent incident which left a young man dead north of Whangarei last night.

When Harley McEwan's lawnmower stalled, he instinctively used his hand to remove the sticks caught between the machine's cutter blade - without stopping the motor.

A man with a stab wound to one shoulder ended up walking into a Whangarei home early yesterday.

It cost $32m and has won a top engineering award - but Whangarei's bridge has been unable to rise for boaties when temperatures topped 26C this summer.

Road works have brought traffic to a standstill south of Whangarei as holidaymakers trickle home from their summer breaks, leaving some motorists seeing red.

Two launches collided in Whangarei Harbour last night, leaving them both significantly damaged.

A man in his 50s died after falling 10m from a flying fox at a Northland fun park today. St John territory manager Mark Going said an ambulance from Whangarei responded to a call in Maungakaramea at about 5.45pm.

The family of slain up-and-coming rugby league star Luke Tipene are gathering for another farewell after his second cousin was killed in a car crash.

A person has died in a crash between a car and a truck on State Highway 1 south of Whangarei.

About 10 officers are expected back in Second Ave following the death of 56-year-old resident Michael Patrick Griffin.

A 16-year-old has been charged with the murder of a Whangarei man who was assaulted at his home on Sunday morning.

A father of three who died after an apparently unprovoked attack at his Whangarei property has been named by police.

An elderly man was flown to Whangarei Hospital yesterday after being trapped by a piece of timber for about 24 hours on a property in Northland.

When Whangarei Pak'nSave checkout operator Rebecca Mclean, 18, helped an elderly customer pay for her groceries last week she did not intend to tell anyone.

A 50-year-old man has been arrested over a kidnapping incident in Whangarei last month.

North is just the tops, Elisabeth Easther discovers on a trip up to Whangarei.