The Blues will have revenge on their minds when they host Super rugby strugglers the Cheetahs in Whangarei tomorrow.

Today's fatal police shooting near Napier is the seventh in just over a decade, since Waitara man Steven Wallace's death in 2000.

Jacob Beck-Jaffurs, who was in his final year of medical school, has died after a spear-fishing trip near Tauranga.

Former bank manager Vanessa Adams' family and friends sobbed openly in court as she was sent to prison for stealing more than $200,000 from customers' accounts.

Four-year-old boy is battling one of the world's rarest genetic diseases

A Far North man has been charged with murder following the discovery of an Auckland man's body near a popular hiking track in Northland.

Ground staff have painted out about 10 slogans, including a swastika, at Toll Stadium in Whangarei.

A Whangarei policeman sacked after he was acquitted on an assault charges has failed to win his job back.

A police officer who was driving a patrol car that struck and killed a 16-year-old walking along a state highway at night gave an emotional apology.

A police officer has denied he was texting when the patrol car he was driving hit and killed a 16-year-old youth in Northland in 2009.

Two Northland dairy farmers have come up with a novel way to express their boyracer tendencies - from the comfort of their own couch.

A witness has described how darkly dressed figures, apparently drunk, were stumbling along a dark Northland road before a teenager was hit and killed by a police car.

The New Zealand men's hockey team have begun their ascent towards the London Olympics with a solid 2-0 win over Belgium in Whangarei.