Northland

Northland crews have been working to contain three scrub fires across the region.

Armed police are guarding a house in Kaikohe after the town's second shooting in less than 24 hours.

Two helicopters equipped with monsoon buckets are on their way to a large scrub fire near Doubtless Bay in the Far North.

The peaceful march was part of a much longer hīkoi that left Te Rerenga Wairua, or Cape Reinga, at dawn on Thursday and is due to arrive at the Treaty Grounds on 6 February.

The Minister for Māori-Crown Relations was told to stop making jokes about Seymour at the National Iwi Chairs Forum.

The forum will host 74 iwi ahead of Waitangi Day, and they will be considering "how we deal with the new coalition government".

The government and others impacted by the invasive seaweed are closely watching the outcomes.

The sealing of a once perilous road means visitors to significant battle sites no longer have to risk life and limb to get there.

Marjorie Julia Cranstoun Mannion and her son Gerald De Vere Mannion died at the scene, police say.

Rachel Jordan says she's not the same person after the devastating crash.

The ACT leader is the architect of the Treaty Principles Bill that proposes to rewrite the treaty principles before putting them to a public vote.

The fishing competition organiser says a boat jetty protest by iwi members was misdirected.

Grant McCallum has called a local iwi's blockade of the boat ramp "illegal actions".

It is one of the great debacles of NZ history-keeping - an irreplaceable physical collection of more than a million photos almost ended up in a rubbish dump. But some have been even harder to track…

The protest organiser says "It's now time for Māori to rise up, to intensify the struggle and make a stand".

A roadblock preventing fishers from using a boat ramp in the Far North has been lifted - but protesters say they will be backto make sure boats are not launched.

Northland is set to receive an additional $4 million towards flood resilience projects, a year since Cyclone Gabrielle battered the area.

Civil Defence says the 2023 cyclone was the biggest event in Te Tai Tokerau in a generation.

A long-awaited two-lane bridge will open in the Far North next week - but initially it will be only one way at a time, just like the old one.