The trip to the very tip of New Zealand, where the Tasman Sea meets the mighty Pacific Ocean, is a pilgrimage every Kiwi should make, writes Megan Singleton.

The impacts of the global financial crisis hit are ingrained in our communities.

Police are asking for help to identify the badly decomposed body of a man found on Ninety Mile Beach in the far north on Sunday afternoon.

Paul Rush takes a hair-raising ride in the Te Paki dunes on a nostalgic Cape Reinga tour

Ninety Mile Beach and Cape Reinga could be early targets for iwi pushing for customary title after the repeal of the Foreshore and Seabed Act.

The final stretch of State Highway 1 was sealed today, allowing drivers a tarsealed ride from one end of the country to the other for the first time.

After rowing nearly 4000km across the Tasman, all Shaun Quincey needed was some Kiwi tucker to make him feel good.

Wave activity "appears to be stabilised" at previously-reported levels, Civil Defence Emergency Management says.

Famous stretch of coastline in the Far North could be renamed under a tentative Treaty of Waitangi deal.

A grieving son whose father drowned after holding him above water has paid tribute to the loving family man.

A notoriously dangerous stretch of Northland beach has claimed the life of an Auckland man trying to pull his grandchildren from a rip.

Fourth man hands himself in following arrest of three others on aggravated robbery charges.