Police are investigating claims parents have organised after-school fights between Northland teenagers to settle playground disputes.

Whale's calls of distress brought mother and brother dangerously close to shore.

Neighbours heard the roar of a car engine before it hit the kerb and became airborne twice before skidding into the creek on its side.

Tahi, once an old farm, is now a haven for endangered bird life, says Jim Eagles.

Police have identified the two victims of the worst New Zealand port tragedy in years.

Two crewmen died of suffocation and another was critically hurt in a log ship's hold at Marsden Pt wharf yesterday.

Two crewmen are dead after suffocating in a ship's timber hold at Marsden Point wharf near Whangarei this afternoon.

A restauranteur claims her business was pushed to the brink of closure by an email from a disgruntled customer spread "all around town".

An IPCA report defends the fatal shooting of an armed drug addict by a police officer in Whangarei in 2008.

The companies that run Whangarei's Zion Wildlife Gardens, where a big cat handler was mauled to death, have pleaded not guilty to two health and safety charges.

A 20-year-old Auckland man was walking in shallow water with four mates when he was knocked down by a rogue wave and swept to his death at a normally safe Northland beach.

The last moments of Liberty Templeman's life may never be known, as her killer has never told the truth, his sentencing judge has said.

Multimillion dollar property empire heir Stacey Hopper was killed instantly when the family aircraft he was piloting crashed into an occupied van.