A man has been found dead in Whangarei in the early hours of this morning, in unexplained circumstances.

Two bodies have been found in a house in Whangarei this morning.

A Whangarei bakery manager has been fined after being convicted of buying unregulated home-kill meat she intended to use in produce sold across the counter.

The body of a dead man clutching a lifejacket washed ashore early this morning in the Whangarei Harbour.

For a less-crowded coastal experience, Smuggler's Cove at Whangarei Heads is for you.

Mission Bay Reserve is one of Auckland's most popular summer evening spots. So why are the men's loos allowed to get so filthy?

Whangarei District Council spent nearly $29,000 trying to dispose of a businessman's truck worth $1500 it seized for displaying advertising signs on a public road.

A man with a stab wound to one shoulder ended up walking into a Whangarei home early yesterday.

It cost $32m and has won a top engineering award - but Whangarei's bridge has been unable to rise for boaties when temperatures topped 26C this summer.

Road works have brought traffic to a standstill south of Whangarei as holidaymakers trickle home from their summer breaks, leaving some motorists seeing red.

Two launches collided in Whangarei Harbour last night, leaving them both significantly damaged.

Radiant summer weather made a brief call to the North Island at the weekend, attracting hardy bathers into the still-cool water at beaches and creating a run on icecream.

A man in his 50s died after falling 10m from a flying fox at a Northland fun park today. St John territory manager Mark Going said an ambulance from Whangarei responded to a call in Maungakaramea at about 5.45pm.

The family of slain up-and-coming rugby league star Luke Tipene are gathering for another farewell after his second cousin was killed in a car crash.

A person has died in a crash between a car and a truck on State Highway 1 south of Whangarei.

A 16-year-old has been charged with the murder of a Whangarei man who was assaulted at his home on Sunday morning.

A father of three who died after an apparently unprovoked attack at his Whangarei property has been named by police.

An elderly man was flown to Whangarei Hospital yesterday after being trapped by a piece of timber for about 24 hours on a property in Northland.

When Whangarei Pak'nSave checkout operator Rebecca Mclean, 18, helped an elderly customer pay for her groceries last week she did not intend to tell anyone.

A 50-year-old man has been arrested over a kidnapping incident in Whangarei last month.

North is just the tops, Elisabeth Easther discovers on a trip up to Whangarei.

A rare Nissan Skyline racing car, valued at $60,000, has been stolen from a rural property in Whangarei.

A wounded postwoman is believed to have been accidentally shot with a pellet gun while making her rounds in Northland yesterday morning.

An elderly woman was beaten with her own walking sticks during a home invasion in Whangarei last night.

The chief executive of the KiwiYo company says he is deeply sorry that a Whangarei teenager quit her job after she was told not to greet customers with a traditional "kia ora".

A 68-year-old woman died and three people were injured after a car crossed the centre line and collided into two vehicles, police say.