This coastal town serves up more than scrummy fish and chips, writes Elisabeth Easther.

A great boys' trip up north is about golf and sleep not babes and beach for family man Rob Cox.

Elisabeth Easther visited Russell for a sneak preview of the Bay of Islands Walking Weekend and found a wealth of wanders on offer.

A Northland man who allegedly drugged male tourists before indecently assaulting them has appeared in court today.

A wounded postwoman is believed to have been accidentally shot with a pellet gun while making her rounds in Northland yesterday morning.

A specialist police squad negotiated with a man in a rural Far North home for about four hours before he was found dead in a house fire caused by an explosive device.

An nzherald.co.nz reader's video of flooding in Kaeo. Courtesy YouTube/mrmaca

100 low-income families were asked what they needed to get out of poverty. Here are their answers.

Danielle Wright discovers clubs happy to welcome you in out of the cold.

Ewan McDonald completes a personal triathlon in the Far North.

Elisabeth Easther is tempted to stay in Northland's big-game fishing golden spot.

A huge fire at Taheke, in South Hokianga, is likely to take days and cost tens of thousands of dollars to put out.

No matter what the weather, Elisabeth Easther finds plenty to do at the beach.

A Far North teacher accused of attacking a student during class has made a brief appearance in court this morning.

A victim of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her husband says she stayed with him for more than two decades because he threatened to kill her parents.

The man jailed for two decades for sex and violence offences was a "destructive" influence on Maori/Pakeha relations in the Far North, Labour MP Shane Jones says.

A Far North marae hit by fire this week had been the subject of infighting over a new building on the site, a marae leader says.

The response was swift and pretty much universal: this was appalling, stomach churning, almost certainly criminal, writes Toby Manhire.

There was this woman astride a horse, on a beach, far away at the top of NZ. She moved forward because these were her people's lands and she wouldn't be denied.

A Far North after-school care worker has been charged with child sex abuse.

A man who broke into a woman's home and filmed her as she slept has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of five years.

Elisabeth Easther discovers a gem of a town in Northland where the train runs down the middle of the main street.

Elisabeth Easther finds New Zealand's former capital is still a capital place.