There could be some fish hooks in the way prizes are allocated in future but the organisers of the southern hemisphere's biggest snapper contest say it will definitely be held again next year.

"Crazy" people are at risk of being "fried" by high voltage powerlines - including people driving over and picking up 11,000-volt cables after two accidents in Whangarei.

A Whangarei man was taken to hospital after crashing into a power pole shortly after police abandoned a pursuit of his car.

A woman in her 50s was knocked unconscious and suffered a suspected broken arm when she fell down a cliff in Whangarei this morning.

A vehicle posing as a police patrol car with red and blue flashing lights is pulling over unsuspecting Northland motorist and its plain clothed occupants pretending to be police officers.

A Northland woman has died in hospital after she was severely burnt in a gas explosion.

A Whangarei man accused of assaulting a mother of two during a domestic dispute who later died is now facing a manslaughter charge.

Eight people were taken to hospital after a stolen car crashed into another vehicle containing six people near where a police patrol had stopped to speak to a cyclist.

A Whangarei couple who between them stole more than $72,000 from taxpayers by making false statements to get benefits have been sentenced to home detention.

Hours after Whangarei woman Patricia McGrath was fatally injured in a domestic dispute, her sister-in-law made a plea to the family not to take matters into their own hands.

A Whangarei mother of two has died in hospital after a domestic dispute and more serious charges are likely to be laid against the man accused of assaulting her.

Police cordoned off a Northland house following an alleged assault which left a woman critically injured in hospital.

The hunt for a super-sized Santa missing from atop a Thai restaurant in Whangarei is still continuing.

Footage from the police Taser gun allegedly used by a woman against a Northland policeman during a vicious assault is now being used as potential evidence against the attackers.

While those veges in the garden will be bolting with the warm rain, so too will the cannabis crops of Northland drug growers.

Enjoying a coffee and some lunch in the sun this summer just got more pleasant for customers at one ground-breaking Whangarei cafe.

Cameron Leslie has put on 6kg in three months and he's loving it.

Family members of a Northland father and son caught in rough weather when their jetski broke down headed back out to retrieve the jetski after the rescue.

A Whangarei family has been shattered by thieves who stole Christmas presents and frozen meat during a day-time burglary.

A transgender prisoner has been ordered to serve her sentence in a men's prison, not on home detention as requested.