A real estate agent has been fined $2000 and censured over her failure to disclose a serious historic leak and rotting wall.

Mobile shops which trawl Whangarei's low-income areas targeting the poor will themselves become the target of a new education campaign.

Today's Google Doodle remembers the life of Dame Whina Cooper on her birthday.

Tourism experts say a new training college in Northland will expand the industry in the region making it a bigger earner than farming and could create up to an extra 300 jobs.