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Ingrid Visser's last boyfriend joked he needed a satellite tracker to find her. Just look for the orca and that's where she'll be.

The kiwi might be safe but fuming residents in the blanket ban zone are struggling to sell their homes.

Computer skills, sewing, mending, sharpening knives and more were shared at the inaugural Hokianga Repair Cafe.

State Highway 15 is closed to allow crews to clean up logs that have spilled across the road.

A boy has been flown to hospital with burns after the incident at a farm's fire pit near Dargaville.

Dogs have been destroyed for attacking another dog in the Far North.

New Zealand firefighters are en route to battle deadly wildfires in the United States.

An important battle site of the Northern Wars has been recognised by Heritage NZ as sacred to Maori.

A boiler explosion leaving a man with burns to "75 per cent of his body", has sparked calls for it to be shut down after a second unnerving incident.

She spends her days teaching arts to prisoners at the Northland Region Corrections Facility in a bid to reduce re-offending. Now arts tutor Beth Hill has been recognised with two Arts Access awards.