Northland

A commissioner will be appointed to run Northland's Dargaville High School after a damning assessment by the Education Review Office.

A kapa haka group with a difference is practising furiously for its first-ever public performance in Kerikeri this Matariki weekend. Audio

The region has been hit by drought, record rainfall and a cyclone just this year.

Police say one person has died following a serious crash Saturday evening in Dargaville.

Community leaders in Moerewa are calling for a long-standing culture of doing "burnouts" to end before it ends in tragedy. Audio

The controversial Northland mayor who tried to ban karakia from council meetings will not be standing for a second mayoral term.

Nearly 30 firefighters were called to a large house fire in a small town south of Dargaville in the early hours.

Belle Mumby is accused of theft, deception and forgery.

That led the investigation team to conclude an electrical fault was the most likely cause of the fire.

Work was just about to start on repurposing the historic ship Tui when it was destroyed in a fire on Wednesday.

The cause of a fire that destroyed a historic ship at the Paihia waterfront may never be known, a fire investigator says.

Kaikohe sought to remember Catalya Remana Tangimetua-Pepene whose death has rocked the small town.

Two people have died in separate road crashes in Northland and the Waikato overnight.

Some residents in Dargaville are still without water and others are being asked to use as little as possible.

Kaipara Council has completed repairs on pipes that drained Dargaville's water supply. Audio

Neighbours of a girl, 3, who died at her Northland home last week say her smile was so bright it 'lit up the whole world'.

Meanwhile, a 45-year-old man is due to appear in court charged with assault and murder.

The man will appear in the Kaikohe District Court on Monday.