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Plants that feed your soul: Adding edible weeds and flowers can be beneficial to health and budget

Northland cookbook author Anna Valentine shares tips on foraging for edible weeds.

Speedy treatment: Why father with rare cancer travelled to India

Anthony Edwards is being treated in Chandigarh for neuroendocrine cancer.

News in brief: Russell walk formalised; Tinopai Fishing Competition this weekend

The latest newsbites from around the region.

Children’s free dental care system 'broken' in Northland

One parent claimed they faced a nine-month wait for a dental appointment for her children.

'Really busy and super positive': Paihia businesses shrug off criticism about town

There is pushback after comments about Northland’s top tourist town being run down.

Victory House: A rehab facility that reforms convicts through faith

'My time spent in the house taught me to be a better human being.'

Comment: Bulldozer wrong machine for Bay of Islands climate change adaptation

OPINION: A bulldozer will be washed away but a united community won't.

Man dies after his car crashes into tree

The 58-year-old was flown to hospital with critical injuries.

Glamour TVNZ couple tie the knot at Northland beach wedding

'It was a lovely ceremony for a lovely couple.'

'Deeply troubling and unacceptable': Widow seeks answers after husband's death

'The circumstances leading up to Neill’s death have raised serious concerns'

Country’s best young singers to perform in Far North and Whangārei

Fifty-six of the country's best young singers to perform

Loved too much: Popular Matapōuri Mermaid Pools slowly recovering

The delicate Mermaid Pools used to have up to 1000 visitors a day.

Volunteers clean up Maunu Cemetery to help raise community spirit

Friends of Maunu Cemetery help tidy the grounds once a week as a way to give back.

SH14 has reopened after serious crash caused main road to close temporarily

Motorists should expect diversions to be in place.

Opponents heartbroken as Paihia breakwater proposal refloated by Shane Jones

The Paihia breakwater divided the town but is needed for road protection, minister says.

Council defends taking dog from locked kennel on man's property

Sky was a stray a Kawakawa man wanted to adopt, but council took her from a locked kennel.

Far North news in brief: Shellfish back on the menu

Catch up on what's happening across Northland.

Artist's work blends alchemy and science

Mangōnui's Jasmine Keir creates an abstract world that mirrors the patterns of nature.