Stories by Lois Williams

Hundreds of mourners have been paying their respects to the Waitangi chief, Kingi Taurua, who died last Thursday.

A pair of Waiotira farmers were fined $225,000 in 2016 for what the judge said was one of the worst cases he had seen of allowing waste or sewage into waterways.

The public should have had a say in plans to revamp the historic Russell wharf, the Environmental Defence Society says.

A Russell ratepayer is threatening court action over moves to change the ownership of the town's wharf.

Researchers working for Heritage New Zealand have uncovered archival documents showing Northland was expected to bear the brunt of a Japanese invasion in World War II.

Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage is considering a court challenge to a proposed peat mining venture in the Far North.

The 21-year-old man is denying responsibility for a fatal head-on crash near Kerikeri this week.

A Whangārei school has set up a trust to raise funds for therapy for its most troubled pupils.

Community groups are accusing the Northland Regional Council of bending over backwards to help avocado growers who've been unlawfully taking water for irrigation.

The first national commemoration of the New Zealand Wars begins with a mass haka at Te Tii Marae at Waitangi this afternoon.

Māori, conservationists and fishing interests are sounding the alarm over plans to dredge the entrance to Whangārei Harbour.

More than 70 people attended a public meeting last night over plans to build New Zealand's biggest chicken farm.

The new mayor of Kaipara is promising to make good on his election promise of a fresh start for the debt-ridden district.

The Northland Regional Council knew a toxic algal bloom was likely at a Far North lake and failed to warn the community, a local farmer says.

The Governor-General has paid tribute to the man who saved the Waitangi Treaty Grounds for the nation. Audio

The opening of the Toi Ngāpuhi art exhibition in Whangarei has drawn collectors from as far away as America.

Northland's only tertiary arts course must be saved, the region's economic development leader says.

Northland council leaders are urging the government not to shelve plans for a four-lane highway from Whangarei to Warkworth.

A report by Refining New Zealand has shed more light on the Marsden pipeline rupture that stopped fuel supplies to Auckland in September.

A small Northland conservation group has lost its final court battle over the export of swamp kauri.

Fluffy was found on the ground under his nest, possibly thrown out as his parents tried to save the rest of the chicks from overheating.

New Zealand kauri are being listed as a threatened species and could be lost because of public apathy and stupidity, a prominent scientist says.

Whangarei mayor Sheryl Mai is imploring young people in her city to reach out for help if they're feeling suicidal.

An increasingly complex funding system has affected Northtec's ability to offer some courses and is part of the reason for the polytech's funding crisis, its chief executive says.

Northland's economic development agency is warning against plans by the region's polytech to scrap degree courses in art and sports.