News that Zion Wildlife Park has been placed in receivership has revived hopes that the Lion Man could return to rescue the big cats. As Geoff Cumming reports, that may not be in the animals' best interests.

A court injunction is being drafted to save the big cats at Whangarei's Zion Wildlife Gardens, after receivers moved in to take control of the Northland park today, the current operator says.

A Northland mother who kicked her daughter so hard that she flew through the air...

The impacts of the global financial crisis hit are ingrained in our communities.

Just over a fifth of all working-age Northlanders were on welfare benefits at the end of March.