An army trainee died when a vehicle he was travelling in crashed with an "almighty bang" into a power pole near Dargaville on Friday night.

A man was killed and four others injured, one critically, when a car hit a power pole in Northland last night.

Doug and Heather Carter have had raw sewage spew on to their Dargaville property at least once a year since they moved there 25 years ago.

A Dargaville man who hit his former partner over the head with a guitar has been jailed for 22 months.

A 17-year-old boy has drowned at Kai Iwi Lakes near Dargaville despite desperate attempts by his three young friends to revive him.

A Northland man who had been repairing Queensland roads damaged in floods in 2010 and 2011 has been stranded in Bundaberg as a result of ex-cyclone Oswald.

A woman allegedly used a brick as a weapon and tried to shoot a police officer with his own taser in a brutal attack by a group of youths on Christmas Day.

The driver of a Fonterra milk tanker was killed yesterday when his truck crashed into a drain near Dargaville. The man died at the scene, said Northland fire service spokesperson Tania Matthews.

A judge declined home detention for a Dargaville man who admitted viewing child pornography and sent him to prison for 15 months.

A three-year-old girl who was run over in a marae carpark near Dargaville on Saturday is in a stable condition in Starship Children's Hospital.

A man who sexually violated a 73-year-old Dargaville woman in her home, dressed in some of her clothes and beat her up has been sentenced to nine years in jail.

A 22-year-old man is dead and three others seriously injured after an overloaded car lost control and landed in a ditch in Northland early this morning.