A Whangarei man was taken to hospital after crashing into a power pole shortly after police abandoned a pursuit of his car.

A woman in her 50s was knocked unconscious and suffered a suspected broken arm when she fell down a cliff in Whangarei this morning.

A vehicle posing as a police patrol car with red and blue flashing lights is pulling over unsuspecting Northland motorist and its plain clothed occupants pretending to be police officers.

A Northland woman has died in hospital after she was severely burnt in a gas explosion.

A prominent Northland businessman died from a heart attack while competing in the Wellington-to-Auckland Cycle Challenge.

A woman who has suffered burns to 70 per cent of her body had just arrived home when an explosion occurred, a resident who came to her help says.

A Whangarei man accused of assaulting a mother of two during a domestic dispute who later died is now facing a manslaughter charge.

Eight people were taken to hospital after a stolen car crashed into another vehicle containing six people near where a police patrol had stopped to speak to a cyclist.

A Whangarei couple who between them stole more than $72,000 from taxpayers by making false statements to get benefits have been sentenced to home detention.

A Whangarei man who bashed another in a random act of street thuggery and stole petrol five times has avoided jail mainly thanks to the efforts of his lawyer.

A Northland family hope the tragic death of Patricia Ann McGrath will not be in vain but may raise awareness about domestic violence.

Police cordoned off a Northland house following an alleged assault which left a woman critically injured in hospital.

The hunt for a super-sized Santa missing from atop a Thai restaurant in Whangarei is still continuing.

Footage from the police Taser gun allegedly used by a woman against a Northland policeman during a vicious assault is now being used as potential evidence against the attackers.

While those veges in the garden will be bolting with the warm rain, so too will the cannabis crops of Northland drug growers.

Enjoying a coffee and some lunch in the sun this summer just got more pleasant for customers at one ground-breaking Whangarei cafe.

Cameron Leslie has put on 6kg in three months and he's loving it.

Family members of a Northland father and son caught in rough weather when their jetski broke down headed back out to retrieve the jetski after the rescue.

A Whangarei family has been shattered by thieves who stole Christmas presents and frozen meat during a day-time burglary.

A transgender prisoner has been ordered to serve her sentence in a men's prison, not on home detention as requested.